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Liu, Han-Chin – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2018
Multimedia students' dependence on information from the outside world can have an impact on their ability to identify and locate information from multiple resources in learning environments and thereby affect the construction of mental models. Field dependence-independence has been used to assess the ability to extract essential information from…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Multimedia Instruction, Visual Perception, Eye Movements
Britain, Susan D.; And Others – 1979
Kindergarten children were exposed to a behavior modification training activity involving perceptual scanning, which was designed to increase the field-independent mode of perception. The training was evaluated, based upon a group of 18 experimental subjects and a control group of 17 children. Subjects in the training group were individually…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Cognitive Style, Kindergarten Children, Perception
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Suddick, Richard P.; And Others – Journal of Dental Education, 1982
Two tests of field dependence-independence (the Embedded Figures Test and Inverted Tracing Test) are examined as potential predictors of student clinical performance. Results suggest that field-independent students may have an advantage in the clinical dental curriculum. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Clinical Experience, Cognitive Style, Dental Students
Green, Kathy E. – 1985
Cognitive style refers to preferences for, or dominant modes of, information processing. Cognitive styles tend to be bipolar and less value-laden than ability or aptitude measures. Conceptualizations of cognitive style differ in the number of styles and the degree of metacognitive control over them which individuals are presumed to have. The Hill…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Cognitive Tests, Conceptual Tempo