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Karrer, Urs – 1988
This paper examines and critiques several learning style inventories (LSI) in an effort to find the optimal research instrument for a proposed empirical study of both the quality of courseware and the impact of courseware characteristics on variations of learning effectiveness due to learner characteristics. Five LSIs are examined: (1) Dunn LSI;…
Descriptors: Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Style, Comparative Analysis
Smith, Douglas K.; Holliday, Peter J. – 1986
The study investigates differences in learning styles as measured by the Learning Style Inventory (LSI), an instrument designed to identify sociological, emotional, environmental, and physiological factors that form an individual's learning style. The subjects for the study were a sample of fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-graders in a midwestern…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Environment, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Style
Symons, Sonya E.; Vye, Nancy J. – 1986
The instructional components of mediation, a teaching technique used in dynamic assessment, were evaluated with 100 four-year-old children attending daycare or preschools in London, Ontario. The effects of familiarization with task materials, task-specific rule teaching, and elaborated feedback were assessed using a pretest-posttest design.…
Descriptors: Analysis of Covariance, Cognitive Measurement, Day Care Centers, Diagnostic Tests
Blosser, Patricia E. – 1987
Some science educators who are interested in conceptual development have considered the phenomenon of student misconceptions and alternative frameworks. Researchers have used a variety of terms to describe the situation in which students' ideas differ from those of a scientist about a particular concept. This digest was produced to briefly…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures
Merritt, Frank M.; McCallum, Steve – 1983
The Luria-Das Information Processing Model of human learning holds that information is analysed and coded within the brain in either a simultaneous or a successive fashion. Simultaneous integration refers to the synthesis of separate elements into groups, often with spatial characteristics; successive integration means that information is…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Rating, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Measurement
Gamlin, Peter J.; Bountrogianni, Marie – 1985
Research summarized here demonstrates how similarity thinking can be used in training programs to help ethnic minority children acquire basic skills. Current achievements are often attenuated by poor language skills, especially when English is not the first language of the child. Similarity thinking assesses the child's ability to learn without…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes

Dochy, Filip J. R. C.; Alexander, Patricia A. – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 1995
Reviews the current literature concerning prior knowledge in an attempt to clarify problems with the terminology. Identifies the three main problems: lack of definition or vagueness, nominal versus real definitions, and different names/same constructs or same name/different constructs. Includes a conceptual map of prior knowledge terminology. (MJP)
Descriptors: Cognitive Mapping, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures
Sawada, Daiyo; Pothier, Yvonne – 1986
A new framework for designing qualitative studies is described to optimize the emergence, representation and presentation of insights. The framework, called Reflection Methodology, is presented as a "Conversational Paradigm" that includes four components--interviewer (researcher as participant); child, task situation, and observing…
Descriptors: Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Division