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Analyzing the Relationship between Learning Styles and Basic Concept Knowledge Level of Kindergarten Children
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Balat, Gülden Uyanik – Educational Research and Reviews, 2014
Most basic concepts are acquired during preschool period. There are studies indicating that the basic concept knowledge of children is related to language development, cognitive development, academic achievement and intelligence. The relationship between learning behaviors (sometime called learning or cognitive styles) and a child academic success…
Descriptors: Correlation, Cognitive Style, Concept Formation, Kindergarten
General and Specific Effects on Cattell-Horn-Carroll Broad Ability Composites: Analysis of the Woodcock-Johnson III Normative Update Cattell-Horn-Carroll Factor Clusters across Development
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Floyd, Randy G.; McGrew, Kevin S.; Barry, Amberly; Rafael, Fawziya; Rogers, Joshua – School Psychology Review, 2009
Many school psychologists focus their interpretation on composite scores from intelligence test batteries designed to measure the broad abilities from the Cattell-Horn-Carroll theory. The purpose of this study was to investigate the general factor loadings and specificity of the broad ability composite scores from one such intelligence test…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Psychologists, School Psychologists, Intelligence Tests
Role of Attention in Retardate Discrimination Learning. Progress Report No. 3.
Zeaman, David; House, Betty J. – 1961
To test the theory that retardates are particularly slow in forming some visual habits, especially attention, a series of experiments were performed using a laboratory device which forced subjects to discriminate between color and form in exchange for an incentive reward. Stochastic models were applied to tests of lower level retardates which…
Descriptors: Attention, Discrimination Learning, Educational Research, Elementary Education
Eye Movement as an Index of Learning.
Nesbit, Larry L. – 1982
The relationship between cognitive activity, achievement, and the number of eye fixations used by a learner in viewing visuals was examined. Past research has shown a positive correlation between learning and number of eye fixations and indicated that both the stimulus materials themselves and the viewer's intelligence level may influence viewing…
Descriptors: Eye Fixations, Eye Movements, Illustrations, Intelligence
Dimensions of Cognitive Style: Their Interrelationships and Use in Maximizing Trainability.
Manfredo, Pamela A. – 1987
A growing interest among industrial and organizational psychologists is learning how to predict and maximize trainability. This study was conducted to examine the relationship between dimensions of cognitive style and perceptual mode as well as their association with a learning style instrument, explore the relationship between field…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, College Students, Field Dependence Independence, Higher Education
Differences in Spelling Achievement of Junior College Students Instructed by an Auditory and a Visual Approach.
Collett, LaVerna Salyer; Curry, Robert L. – 1971
Vietnam veterans enrolled in special reading classes at a community college were the subjects in a comparison of the effects of presenting programed spelling materials by a visual and by an auditory approach. Two groups of 30 students each were randomly selected from 120 veterans enrolled in the special reading classes; during an eight-week…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Adults, Aural Learning, Comparative Analysis