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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Contemp Educ Psychol. 2014 Jul 1;39(3):206–219. doi: 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2014.05.003

Table 4. Arcsine transformed proportions (and standard deviations) of clauses recalled by condition and: working memory.

Study Condition
Entertainment Condition
Text Type Low WMa
(n = 19)
High WM
(n = 17)
Low WM
(n = 15)
High WM
(n = 17)
Unique
Textual
Clauses
Compare-Contrast .43 (.14) .44 (.18) .35 (.15) .36 (.10)
Descriptive .41 (.17) .39 (.18) .29 (.16) .29 (.17)
Problem-Response .43 (.19) .50 (.21) .32 (.09) .42 (.09)
Chronological .29 (.17) .36 (.18) .32 (.13) .26 (.16)

Unique
Important
Ideas
Compare-Contrast .61 (.14) .67 (.18) .55 (.26) .60 (.13)
Descriptive .60 (.26) .59 (.40) .41 (.28) .48 (.34)
Problem-Response .52 (.27) .65 (.18) .60 (.25) .60 (.23)
Chronological .42 (.23) .49 (.22) .46 (.19) .39 (.21)
a

WM = Working Memory