Sanchez, Rebecca Polley ; Lorch, Elizabeth Pugzles ; Lorch, Robert F. (n.d.). Effects of Headings on Text Processing Strategies. Contemporary educational psychology. San Diego, CA: Elsevier Inc.

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- Dee-Lucas & DiVesta, 1980; 
- Loman & Mayer, 1983; 
- Lorch & Lorch, 1985, 1995, 1996a, 1996b; 
- Lorch, Lorch, & Inman, 1993; 
- Meyer, Brandt, & Bluth, 1980; 
- Meyer & Rice, 1982

Experiments suggesting that headings would result in a better recall of expository text 

Effects of Headings on Text Processing Strategies

Text processing strategies 

Lorch, R. F., Lorch, E. P., &amp; Inman, W. E. (1993). Effects of signaling topic structure on text recall. Journal of Educational Psychology, 85(2), 281–290. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-0663.85.2.281 

Effects of Signaling Topic Structure on Text Recall

One of the researchers Meyer has conducted several experiments on investigating whether headings would improve people recalling the information, and the results showed that headings would not improve people recalling information. 

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