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McDonald, Barbara A.; And Others – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1985
In two experiments, college student pairs who were given a systematic strategy for learning cooperatively from a text were compared with pairs who created their own strategies and with individuals who used the systematic or their own strategy. The cooperative learning strategy facilitated both initial learning and transfer. (Author/GDC)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Higher Education, Independent Study, Learning Strategies

Rittschof, Kent A.; Griffin, Marlynn M.; Custer, Wendy L. – International Journal of Instructional Media, 1998
Describes a study that examined five influences on college students' schemata to determine what affected their ability to make effective use of instructional thematic maps. Topics include use of the Group Embedded Figures Test to determine field dependence/independence; sex differences; student preferences for data representation types; and…
Descriptors: Field Dependence Independence, Higher Education, Learning Processes, Learning Strategies

Highhouse, Scott; Doverspike, Dennis – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1987
This study investigated the relationship between cognitive style, occupational preference, and learning modes. Kolb's Revised Learning Style Inventory (1985), the Group Embedded Figures Test, and the Vocational Choice Inventory were administered to 111 undergraduate students. (Author/GDC)
Descriptors: Career Choice, Cognitive Style, Cognitive Tests, Construct Validity

Lambiotte, Judith G.; And Others – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1987
Seventy-four introductory psychology students were subjects in a study evaluating the impact of cooperative interactions during studying and test taking. Results indicated that cooperative study training affects performance favorably. Cooperative test-taking training also affected recall performance favorably, for the amount of information…
Descriptors: College Students, Cooperation, Group Activities, Higher Education

Adejumo, Dayo – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1983
The effect of cognitive style on the performance of four groups of college students (n=326) who used different strategies of study to comprehend prose was investigated. The cognitive styles of the subjects (field dependence/independence) interacted with the strategies of study and seem to affect performance on comprehension of prose at posttest.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Higher Education, Interaction, Learning Processes
Simpson, F. Morgan; And Others – 1994
The cognitive styles of Education majors at a southern university were examined over a 5-year period. The Group Embedded Figures Test (GEFT) was administered to 537 students in an introductory education course. This test identifies field-dependent (FD) and field-independent (FI) learning styles. One hundred ninety-six students were retested at the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Style, Cognitive Tests, Education Majors
Simpson, F. Morgan; And Others – 1995
The cognitive styles of Education majors at a southern university were examined over a five-year period. The Group Embedded Figures Test (GEFT) was administered to 537 students in an introductory education course. This test identifies field-dependent (FD) and field-independent (FI) learning styles. Two hundred twelve students were retested at the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Education Majors, Elementary Secondary Education, Field Dependence Independence
Shih, Ching-Chun; Ingebritsen, Tom; Pleasants, John; Flickinger, Kathleen; Brown, George – 1998
This paper reports the results of a study designed to examine how students with different learning styles functioned in World Wide Web-based courses offered by Project BIO at Iowa State University in the Fall of 1997, and to determine what factors influenced their learning. The objectives of the study were to identify: (1) the demographic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Biology, Cognitive Style, Correlation

Larson, Celia O.; And Others – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1985
Pairs of undergraduate students were instructed to engage in metacognitive activities, elaborative activities, or neither while listening to prose passages. Results of a recall test suggested that metacognitive activity facilitated cooperative learning, while elaborative activity transferred to a later individual learning activity. (Author/GDC)
Descriptors: Analysis of Covariance, Aural Learning, Field Dependence Independence, Higher Education
Liu, Min; Reed, W. Michael – 1994
Different learning strategies that are used by field-independent (FI) and field-dependent (FD) people in a hypermedia-assisted instructional setting were studied with 63 international college students for whom English was a second language. The treatment was a semantic network-based hypermedia-assisted language-learning environment to help…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, College Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, English (Second Language)

Liu, Min; Reed, W. Michael – Computers in Human Behavior, 1994
Reports on a study that examined different learning strategies used by 63 Field-independent (FI) people and Field-dependent (FD) international college students in a hypermedia assisted language learning setting. Findings that describe the different types of media, tools, and learning aids chosen by FI and FD students are reported. (27 references)…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Cognitive Style, Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware

Small, Ruth V.; Grabowski, Barbara L. – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 1992
Describes a study that identified various individual information seeking behavior patterns and determined how users' motivation, prior knowledge, gender, and cognitive processing influenced learning and retention within a hypermedia environment for undergraduate students. Use of the Group Embedded Figures Test is described and further research is…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction, Field Dependence Independence, Higher Education
Portis, Sarah C.; And Others – 1993
Cognitive style is an important variable that can affect the educational process in several ways. This study, a continuation of previous research, considers two learning styles--field dependent (FD) and field independent (FI). FD learners are attuned to social interaction; they favor structure, teacher direction, and feedback; and they benefit…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Freshmen, College Seniors, Education Courses
Summerville, Jennifer B. – 1998
This study examined variables which may be important in the design of instructional environments adapted to accommodate individual differences. Purposes of the study were: (1) to determine whether matching or mismatching subjects with their tendency toward field dependence or field independence had any effect on achievement in a hypermedia…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Style, Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Environment