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Rhodes, Frances Joan – 1975
This study investigated the effects of advance organizers on selected cognitive styles and structures within a programmed task of grammatical usage. More specifically, the immediate effects of advance organizers were assessed as they related to subjects' field dependency or independency and high or low levels of prior knowledge of general grammar…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Cognitive Style, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Research
Dunn, Charles L. – 1976
This study represents one principal's effort to develop a school climate of teaching and learning to improve academic achievement for students at Intermediate School 158, Bronx, New York. In this program the staff was encouraged to create a diversity of learning environments related to the learning styles of pre-adolescent inner-city youth.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Curriculum Development, Educational Environment, Inner City
Elliott, Donna; Gintzler, Julie – 1999
This phenomenological study implemented and evaluated an individualized approach to multiple intelligence instruction. The targeted population consisted of students in two inner-city elementary schools located in Indiana. In a traditionally book-oriented classroom, instruction is typically geared toward the verbal/linguistic and…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Cognitive Style, Elementary Education, Intelligence Differences
Boss, Roberta S. – 1983
A study examined the influence of cultural values on classroom behaviors of adult Vietnamese refugees. More specifically, the study was designed to determine the effect of culturally acquired attitudes and personality traits on the refugees' classroom behaviors, the relationship between these behaviors and the cognitive learning styles favored by…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Asian Americans, Cognitive Style

Coleman, Kathy; Peters, Pamela; Murray, Linda; Pawlicki, Lorraine; Wemple, Rosalie; Johnson, Sheila – 1997
This action research project evaluated a program for decreasing the gap in achievement levels among primary and secondary level students in the targeted schools. The subjects, from various cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds ranging from lower to upper-middle class, were students in Chicago city and suburban public and Catholic schools. The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Cognitive Style, Cooperative Learning