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An Interaction between Children's Field Dependence-Independence and Order of Learning with Glass Box and Black Box Simulations
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Angeli, Charoula M.; Valanides, Nicolaos C.; Polemitou, Eirini; Fraggoulidou, Elena – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
The present study was undertaken in order to investigate issues related to the integration of instructional simulations in the education of young children aged from 5 to 6.5 years old. A counterbalanced measures design was adopted to investigate the extent to which there was an interaction effect between field dependence-independence (FD-I) and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Cognitive Style, Correlation, Learning Processes
Assessing Individual Differences in Young Children.
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Saracho, Olivia N. – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 1982
Cognitive styles characterize individuals' personalities as well as their social and cognitive functioning. An assessment of cognitive style can present another dimension of individual differences in children as the basis for planning and evaluating early childhood programs. (Author/LC)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Style, Evaluation Needs, Learning Processes
The Effects of Instructional Designs Matched to Individual Differences in Cognitive Styles on Concept Learning: A Trait-Treatment Interaction Study.
Elliot, Charles A. – 1976
This study was designed to determine whether instructional treatments specifically designed to match identifiable learner characteristics can produce significantly better learning than mismatched instruction. Instructional treatments for geometry were developed to match learning patterns of individual students, using field-dependence and…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Cognitive Style, Elementary Education, Grade 3