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The Influence of Children's Cognitive Styles on Reading Comprehension.
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Pitts, Murray C.; Thompson, Bruce – 1982
A study of 103 second, third, and fourth grade students investigated relationships among cognitive styles and reading comprehension. Each subject was individually tested using four different instruments to assess four cognitive styles: (1) field-independence/dependence (ability to locate a simple figure--concept--hidden in a complex field), (2)…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Conceptual Tempo, Elementary Education, Learning Modalities