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Mayer, Richard E.; Massa, Laura J. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2003
Examines the hypothesis that some people are verbal learners and some people are visual learners. Presented a battery of 14 cognitive measures related to the visualizer-verbalizer dimension to 95 college students and then conducted correlational and factor analyses. Results have implications for how to conceptualize and measure individual…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Style, Learning Theories, Multiple Intelligences

Levin, Joel R.; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1974
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Style, Elementary School Students, Individual Differences

DeBoth, Carol J.; Dominowski, Roger L. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1978
Possible interactions of individual learning differences and mode of presentation were investigated in college students. Individual differences in learning were found to be reliable and just as predictable across as within modalities. Subjects could not be reliably classified in terms of auditory-visual preference scores. (Author/BH)
Descriptors: Aural Learning, Cognitive Style, Higher Education, Individual Differences

McClinton, Sandra L. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1981
Children at three age levels (four-, six-, and eight-year-olds) were asked a series of class inclusion questions presented verbally, visually, and kinesthetically. Analysis of correctness of reasons showed main effects of age and of condition. (Author/GK)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Early Childhood Education, Kinesthetic Methods, Learning Processes

Johnson-Glenberg, Mina C. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2000
Examines whether teaching poor text comprehenders reading strategies will improve reading comprehension. Third through fifth grade adequate decoders who were poor comprehenders were trained for 10 weeks in either a verbally or visually based reciprocal teaching program. Results reveal that training reading comprehension strategies in small groups…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Learning Strategies

Plass, Jan L.; Chun, Dorothy M.; Mayer, Richard E.; Leutner, Detlev – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1998
English-speaking college students (n=103) enrolled in a German course read a German story presented by a computer program which allowed them to choose a verbal or visual (picture or video clip) translation. Students remembered word translations better when they saw both annotations. Implications for a theory of multimedia learning are discussed.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Computer Uses in Education, German, Higher Education

Williams, Joanna; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1973
In these studies, authors sought to examine the role of mode of presentation in a verbal learning task, within the context of age-grade differences in two social groups. (Authors/CB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Aural Learning, Learning Modalities, Paired Associate Learning