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Peer reviewedPi-Sui-Hsu; Dwyer, Francis – International Journal of Instructional Media, 2004
Adjunct questions inserted in text requires that an individual is retrieving known concepts and constructing the new meaning. In this process, the individual has to recall the knowledge just studied and locate exactly the location of the information. This study attempts to examine the (a) instructional effects of varied types of adjunct questions…
Descriptors: College Students, Cognitive Style, Hypermedia, Instructional Materials
Download full textShih, 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
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)
Peer reviewedLiu, 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
Peer reviewedSmall, 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
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
