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Heinze, Betty L. – 1978
The tactile-kinesthetic approach to spelling provides a practical teaching device for use with both disabled learners and moderately poor spellers who need to learn a technical or professional vocabulary. This multisensory approach to learning teaches to the student's strengths and places emphasis on finger contact, muscle movement, saying and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Kinesthetic Perception, Learning Disabilities, Learning Modalities
Download full textAusburn, Lynna J. – 1975
A study was designed to test the expectation that different individuals have different cognitive styles, which, if true, may be useful in investigating characteristics and psychological impacts of media utilization. Cognitive style refers to an individual's way of acquiring and processing information. Characteristics of the visual type and haptic…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Tests, College Students, Conceptual Tempo
Ausburn, Floyd B. – 1975
A study was made to determine whether different methods of visual presentations would affect the retention rate of individuals with two distinct types of perception--visual and haptic. The visual type, according to a study by Viktor Lowenfeld in 1957, is marked by the following characteristics: (1) ability to see wholes, break them into visual…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Educational Research, Higher Education
Janowitz, Jeffrey M. – 1992
The Swassing-Barbe Modality Index (SBMI) uses visual, auditory, and tactile inputs, but only reconstructed output, to measure children's modality strengths. In this experiment, the SBMI's three input modalities were crossed with two output modalities (spoken and drawn) in addition to the reconstructed standard to result in nine treatment…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Age Differences, Aural Learning
Tyler, Joanna – 1979
This study examines the effects of readiness level and learning modality emphasis on the form discrimination performance of kindergarten children on training and transfer tasks. Forty-eight male and 48 female kindergarten children between the ages of 5.5 and 6.5 years participated in the study. The children were randomly selected from a group of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Discrimination Learning, Distinctive Features (Language), Kindergarten Children
Gordon, Howard R. D. – 1998
This paper reviews the literature on the relevance of learner characteristics and learning styles when planning law school courses, focusing on the instructional delivery methods and teaching techniques applicable to law school courses. It examines the four major learning modalities: kinesthetic, tactual, auditory, and visual; and the four major…
Descriptors: Aural Learning, Case Studies, Cognitive Style, College Instruction
