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Elliott, Wanda – 1973
The major objective of this study was to compare the effects of two modalities of instruction and testing--aural and visual. Other considerations were sex differences in achievement and the exploration of a relationship between sex identity and achievement. The eighth grade boys and girls of average intelligence who participated in this study…
Descriptors: Aural Learning, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Learning Modalities
Abrams, Nancy – 1976
The effectiveness of providing tactile-kinesthetic sensory input during reading instruction was investigated in a sample of 60 kinesthetic-preferring first-grade pupils. Children were randomly assigned to a method which was predominantly visual, predominantly auditory, or predominantly kinesthetic. Each child received three 20-minute, individual…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Diagnostic Teaching, Doctoral Dissertations, Grade 1
Maher, Phillip Ray – 1975
The purposes of this study were to analyze the effects of instructional objectives as advance organizers prior to a reading assignment, determine if an advance organizer was more effectively presented with two learning modalities than with one; predict whether vocabulary or readability variables influenced comprehension; and determine whether…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Behavioral Objectives, Critical Reading, Doctoral Dissertations
Dimitroff, Michael Lee – 1975
A total of 138 middle-class first graders in two parochial schools were studied to determine whether a phonics reading approach was superior to a contextual reading approach in reading achievement, whether auditory learners achieve in reading to a greater extent than visual learners, and whether auditory or visual learners achieve in one program…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Grade 1, Learning Modalities, Learning Processes
King, Dwade Robert – 1975
This study compared 5 groups (45 each) of disadvantaged first grade children learning to read 16 basic sight vocabulary words. The subjects were enrolled in 1 of 16 classrooms on three campuses of a school district in Texas located on the southern border between the United States and Mexico. Furthermore, all spoke Spanish as their first language.…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Bilingual Students, Cognitive Processes, Disadvantaged Youth