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Dwyer, Carol A. – 1987
The purpose of this study was to determine whether different types of practice strategies are equally effective in facilitating encoding strategies and in subsequent information acquisition and retrieval by students identified as possessing high, medium, and low prior knowledge levels in a content area. Within the context of the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Drills (Practice), Encoding (Psychology)
Dwyer, Carol A.; Dwyer, Francis M. – Programmed Learning and Educational Technology, 1987
Reviews study of undergraduates which evaluated the effects that variations in depth of information processing have on students' memory systems in terms of their ability to acquire and retrieve information related to different types of instructional objectives. The effect of visual versus verbal testing of visualized instruction is also examined.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Analysis of Variance, Cognitive Processes, Criterion Referenced Tests
Foorman, Barbara R.; And Others – 1985
This investigation examined the effectiveness of training Japanese and American children with a visual animation/construction or verbal labelling strategy for solving computerized geometric matrices that were correctly or incorrectly completed and varied in number of elements (l to 3) and number of transformations (0 to 2). Subjects were 209…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Computer Assisted Instruction, Cross Cultural Studies, Elementary Secondary Education
