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Peer reviewedChanLin, Lih-Juan – Educational Media International, 1999
Reports the use of two different visual control treatments (self-controlled versus system-imposed) among students with different cognitive styles. Students in middle school were tested to determine how they learned from instructional materials generated using different design approaches. Results indicated that students with different cognitive…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Cognitive Style, Elementary Secondary Education
O'Donnell, William J.; Endsley, Glenn J. – 1986
This study focuses on the possible relationships between cognitive preference scores of algebra students and level of algebra, sex, and performance rank in algebra classes. The sample consisted of 162 students from a high school in the Denver area. The instruments used were the Cognitive Preference Test: Mathematics (Revised) (CPTM) and the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Rating, Algebra, Cognitive Structures
Peer reviewedHerl, Howard E.; And Others – Journal of Educational Research, 1996
This research applied evolving conceptions of learning to examine how to represent and evaluate students' and experts' cognitive structures. High school history students completed several tasks. Direct comparisons of the quality of student maps with expert maps showed that experts' concept maps could be used to score students' concept maps…
Descriptors: Cognitive Mapping, Cognitive Structures, Concept Mapping, Evaluation Methods
