Duell, O. K. (1968). An analysis of prompting procedures for teaching a sight vocabulary. American Educational Research Journal, 5, 675-686.

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«Prompting» is one technique used to facilitate learning in self-instructional programs. (...) Prompting can be defined generally as the pairing of a cue, the stimulus that is to control a response when traing is completed, with a prompt, a stimulus which already controls or partially controls the desired response. The object of training sequences using prompts is to shift the control of the response from the prompt to the cue whith which the prompt is paired. (...) The amjor purpose of this study was to discover whether children would learn more from prompted training sequences which forced them to notice the cues while they responded than from prompted sequences which did not.