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Voorhees, Richard A. – New Directions for Higher Education, 2008
Institutions that have organized and centralized their data enjoy an obvious advantage in grappling with strategic planning and other issues. As the drumbeat for accountability, planning, and demonstrating effectiveness to internal and external stakeholders intensifies, the stature and importance of institutional research offices on most campuses…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Institutional Research, Institutional Role, Role Perception
Walker, Jearl – Scientific American, 1988
Describes subjective-contour illusions and gives explanations for perception of shape and brightness in these figures. Supports cognitive mechanisms rather than psychological mechanisms. Gives examples of subjective-contour illusions and summarizes explanations of other psychologists with regard to this topic. (CW)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Deception, Perception, Psychology
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Powell, Thomas W.; Peng, Chao-Ying Joanne – Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 1989
A profile analysis procedure was used with the Carrow Auditory-Visual Abilities Test to aid in the identification of systematic modality preferences in two preschool children with articulation disorders. Critical values are identified to facilitate the identification of the child's strengths and weaknesses at the subtest level. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Articulation Impairments, Auditory Perception, Learning Modalities, Preschool Children
Riley, Stanley R. – 1992
This book was written to help teachers gain a better understanding of children who are failing in school and to provide a systematic process of attacking their learning problems. The text presents workable principles for determining probable causes of learning problems and for selecting suitable, effective remedial activities. Learning problems…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Auditory Perception, Diagnostic Teaching, Educational Diagnosis
Stark, Michael J.; Kane, Barbara J. – 1983
Successful outcome in psychotherapy depends, in part, on clients' preconceptions and expectations. Research has shown that inaccurate expectations are more prevalent among lower socioeconomic status clients, who also represent the majority of substance abusers in community treatment programs. To investigate the effect of general and specific…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Counseling Effectiveness, Drug Abuse, Drug Rehabilitation
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Stander, Philip; Twersky, David – B.C. Journal of Special Education, 1993
This paper presents a diagnostic procedure in which a child's possible perceptual/cognitive problems and learning style are carefully documented to create a profile of the child's auditory and visual mode strengths and weaknesses. The profile created is intended to integrate the components of the educational evaluation into a meaningful whole.…
Descriptors: Auditory Evaluation, Auditory Perception, Disabilities, Disability Identification
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Hill, Everett W.; And Others – RE:view, 1992
This article discusses the development of an orientation and mobility screening measure suitable for use with children having severe visual impairments (and possibly additional impairments) from birth through five years of age. Twenty instructors rated the measures as being useful. The two forms of the measure (for either ambulatory or…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Blindness, Infants, Measures (Individuals)
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Roeder, George H., Jr. – Journal of American History, 1994
Contends that history is a nearly "sense-less" profession because reading is almost the only source of historical understanding. Reviews content related to sensory experiences in college history textbooks. Argues that including language about the senses in historical writing and instruction will enlarge the audience and the field of…
Descriptors: Historians, Historical Interpretation, History Instruction, History Instruction
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Cavalier, Robert; Wesp, Richard – Teaching of Psychology, 1997
Maintains that having students estimate the size and width of a class waste paper can (placed on a desk) is a simple and effective way of illustrating perceptual distortion. Tests show that people will consistently overestimate the height of the can, allowing for a useful discussion on sensory distortion. (MJP)
Descriptors: Demonstrations (Educational), Educational Experiments, Error Patterns, Higher Education
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Reed, Charlotte M.; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1989
Small-set segmental identification experiments were conducted with three deaf-blind subjects who were highly experienced users of the Tadoma method. Systematic variations in the positioning of the hand on the speaker's face for Tadoma produced systematic effects on percent-correct scores, information transfer, and perception of individual…
Descriptors: Deaf Blind, Multiple Disabilities, Speech Communication, Tactile Stimuli
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Shimoff, Eliot – Teaching of Psychology, 1998
Outlines a simple classroom demonstration that illustrates Piagetian conservation. Piagetian conservation refers to the illusion of an increase in mass by changing an object's form. This demonstration, done by forming an ellipse with an extension cord, shows that college students are as susceptible to this effect as are young children. (MJP)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Psychology, College Students, Compensation (Concept)
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White, Virginia P. – SRA Journal of the Society of Research Administrators, 1991
This reprinted 1970 article examines the role of the university research administrator and finds that the role involves paradoxes between controller and entrepreneur, master and slave, censor and publicist, and traditionalist and innovator. (DB)
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Role, Higher Education, Research Administration
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Ely, Mark C. – Journal of Research in Music Education, 1992
Discusses a inquiry into the effects of timbre upon college woodwind players' intonational performance and perception. Reports little connection between students' ability to play in tune and to detect intonation problems. Concludes that timbre was significantly related to ability to detect intonation problems but not to the ability to play in…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Higher Education, Majors (Students), Music
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Kamhi, Alan G.; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1990
Content analysis of the Columbia Mental Maturity Scale and the Test of Nonverbal Intelligence (TONI) revealed differences in the nature of perceptual and conceptual items. Both language-impaired and normal-language children performed significantly better on perceptual-type than conceptual-type items. The predominance of perceptual items was…
Descriptors: Children, Concept Formation, Intelligence Tests, Language Handicaps
Yu, Dickie; And Others – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 1989
Research findings were reviewed on the Auditory Visual Combined Discrimination Test, which can be used with severely and profoundly mentally retarded persons to assess basic position, visual, and auditory discriminations. The test was found to be reliable and predictive of client performance in classroom learning, language, and vocational tasks.…
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Perception Tests, Predictive Measurement, Severe Mental Retardation
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