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Krendl, Kathy A.; Fredin, Eric S. – 1985
This field experiment begins to build a theoretical framework for exploring the effects of media characteristics on subjects' understanding and integration of information. Students in two eighth-grade science classes wrote term papers with one class using a print encyclopedia and the other an electronic encyclopedia to conduct their research. A…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Comparative Analysis, Delivery Systems, Encyclopedias
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Keen, Meg – Journal of Environmental Education, 1991
A study examines the influence of a Sunship Earth education program on fifth and sixth grade students (n=578). Results indicate that students who attended the program increased their ecological knowledge significantly. Participation did not result in more positive environmental attitudes. (17 references) (MCO)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education, Experiential Learning, Higher Education
Horton, Jane; Ryba, Ken – Computing Teacher, 1986
This study used the Model for Assessing Learning with Logo (Nolan and Ryba) to examine effects of Logo programming on junior high school students' thinking skills. The model addresses both student acquisition of Logo-related thinking skills and the extent to which they transfer skills to noncomputer problem solving tasks. (MBR)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Educational Research, Evaluation Methods, Junior High School Students
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Krendl, Kathy A.; Fredin, Eric S. – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 1986
This field study examined learning effects attributable to instructional design characteristics when eighth-grade science students used a print encyclopedia or a videotex version of the encyclopedia to write term papers. Results suggest that specific effects of instructional design characteristics of a delivery system are of a limited nature. (MBR)
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Comparative Analysis, Delivery Systems, Encyclopedias
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Hegarty-Hazel, Elizabeth; Prosser, Michael – International Journal of Science Education, 1991
Reports on the relationship between students' propositional knowledge, measured by concept mapping tasks, and their study strategies, measured by self-report questionnaires, as it relates to the concept of photosynthesis as presented in a first-year biology course. Results indicate that involved, purposeful study strategies, prompted by relevant…
Descriptors: Biology, College Science, Concept Mapping, Context Effect
Darwazeh, Afnan N.; Reigeluth, Charles M. – 1982
This study examined the effects of the type of adjunct questions (use-a-generality, remember-a-generality, and remember-an-instance) and the position of these questions either before the relevant text passage (pre-questions) or after it (post-questions) on the three corresponding performance levels of learning. The subjects were 74 eighth-grade…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Cognitive Processes, Factor Analysis, Grade 8