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Direct linkRittschof, Kent A. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2010
Field dependence-independence (FDI) has long been conceptualized and discussed as a cognitive style relevant to numerous educational approaches and outcomes. However, the FDI construct is most often measured as a cognitive ability, as opposed to a style, using instruments such as the Group-Embedded Figures test (GEFT) or the Hidden Figures Test…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Educational Research, Short Term Memory, Instructional Systems
Kaland, Nils; Mortensen, Erik Lykke; Smith, Lars – Autism: The International Journal of Research & Practice, 2007
The aim of the present study was to assess the findings, reported in earlier studies, that individuals with autism spectrum disorders process visuo-spatial tasks faster than typically developing control persons. The participants in the present study were children and adolescents with Asperger syndrome (AS) or high-functioning autism (HFA) (N =…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Cognitive Tests
Shah, A.; Frith, U. – Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, 1983
Explores the relationship between visuo-spatial skills and the ability to attend to perceptual detail in 20 autistic, 20 normal, and 20 mildly retarded children of comparable mental age. Test material from the Children's Embedded Figures Test was used. Autistic children, using qualitatively different strategies, were significantly more competent…
Descriptors: Autism, Cognitive Ability, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries
