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Smith, Patricia L.; Wedman, John F. – 1988
This study compared the effects of an elaborated unit of instruction and a hierarchical unit on students' online processing activities, efficiency of encoding new information, and facility in solving problems. Participants were six education graduate students rated as novices on the to-be-learned content--a unit on the principles of photography.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Encoding (Psychology), Graduate Students
Smith, Patricia L. – 1986
Two studies investigated the differential effects of organizational cuing and strategy training on learning disabled (LD) adolescents, a group which, it has been suggested, is particularly insensitive to the effects of organizational cues. Participants for the first study included 37 LD and 50 nonhandicapped high school students who were randomly…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Analysis of Variance, Cognitive Structures, Cues
Hanclosky, Walter V. – 1986
Two studies were conducted to compare the advance organizer and concept elaboration models of instruction with a task analysis approach. It was hypothesized that the concept elaboration group would achieve significantly higher than either the advance organizer group or the task analysis group on concept learning and principle learning. A pilot…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Advance Organizers, Analysis of Variance, Cognitive Structures
