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Information Processing: A Review of Implications of Johnstone's Model for Science Education
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St Clair-Thompson, Helen; Overton, Tina; Botton, Chris – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2010
The current review is concerned with an information processing model used in science education. The purpose is to summarise the current theoretical understanding, in published research, of a number of factors that are known to influence learning and achievement. These include field independence, working memory, long-term memory, and the use of…
Descriptors: Science Education, Models, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style
The Role of Stimulus-Size on Performance in the Embedded-Figures-Test and in the Rod-and-Frame-Test and the Implications of This Role for the Perceptual and Cognitive Style Constructs in Educational Technology Research.
Streibel, Michael J. – 1981
Three experiments were performed in which subjects were exposed to two sizes of the Embedded Figures Test (EFT), and subjects in the third experiment were also exposed to two sizes of the Rod and Frame Test (RFT). In the first experiment, where the EFT had a size differential of 1 to 4, a nonsignificant size effect and a significant rank…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Correlation, Educational Technology, Higher Education
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