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Oliver, Jo Ellen – 1978
Designed to measure children's abilities to synthesize concepts from several sources, this measure is based on the assumptions that children move from the concrete to the abstract, from specific to generic, and that the ability to synthesize and form new concepts is an important prerequisite to reading comprehension. Each form of the test is…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Tests, Criterion Referenced Tests
Download full textWilson, Brent G. – 1985
Computer based instruction (CBI) is composed of individual frames viewed one at a time. Compared to a typical textbook, CBI restricts the adult learner's capacity to access information from different parts of the lesson and to view complex presentations. Designers of CBI must compensate for these limitations by making a concerted effort to…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Graphics, Courseware
Yore, Larry D.; Russow, Joan E. – 1989
The Information Age has been shaping the conception of thinking in education through the capability of computerized problem solving, through the resulting application of the information processing model to human thinking, and through the theories emerging from other cognitive science research in metacognition, construction of knowledge, and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Tests
Peer reviewedBackman, Jarl; And Others – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 1984
Divided into poor readers and good readers, 144 Swedish students (13-14 years old) participated in an experiment in which oral reading speed, free recall, and summarization of narrative stories presented on videotex were studied as a function of reading skill, text structure, and physical factors. Good readers outperformed poor readers. (BRR)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries, Grade 7, Grade 8
Reigeluth, Charles M. – 1981
Many basic skills are chains of cognitive operations. For teaching such skills, two questions have not been adequately investigated: (1) how the operations comprising the skill should be sequenced, and (2) the relationships among the operations that need to be taught. This investigation entailed four studies on different types and lengths of basic…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Cognitive Processes, College Freshmen, Comparative Analysis
Moon, Charles E.; And Others – 1986
Forty studies using one or more components of Lozanov's method of suggestive-accelerative learning and teaching were identified from a search of all issues of the "Journal of Suggestive-Accelerative Learning and Teaching." Fourteen studies contained sufficient statistics to compute effect sizes. The studies were coded according to substantive and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Control Groups, Educational Research, Effect Size
