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Keefe, James W. – 1987
A cognitive processing model was adopted by the task force developing the National Association of Secondary School Principals' (NASSP) Learning Style Profile (LSP). The LSP contains 23 independent scales representing four higher order factors: cognitive skills; perceptual responses; study preferences; and instructional preferences. The subscales…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Cognitive Tests, Learning Processes, Learning Strategies

Miller, Alan – Educational Psychology: An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology, 1991
Outlines a new personality typology that provides a coherent system for construing and conducting research on learning styles. Discusses analytic, holistic, objective, and subjective styles as the affect versatility. Presents implications for educational goals, such as determining which students can benefit from stylistic versatility and which…
Descriptors: Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Style, Educational Objectives, Higher Education

Melot, Anne-Marie; Corroyer, Denis – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 1992
Presents study results examining conditions in which children can apply a previously learned memorization strategy to new but analogous tasks. Concludes that strategy mastery during training is not sufficient. Reports that only subjects who use information about relations between procedures and results to construct generalizable knowledge are able…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Classification, Cognitive Style, Elementary Education

Wishart, Jennifer G. – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 1991
A group of 16 infants (ages 6 to 24 months) with Down's Syndrome (DS) were exposed to two operant learning tasks varying in control of reinforcement. Comparison with chronological and developmental age matched controls found DS subjects characterized by increasing adoption of counterproductive learning behaviors with increasing age. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Style

Riding, Richard; Mathias, David – Educational Psychology: An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology, 1991
Presents results of a study of 11-year-old children's learning mode preferences, reading attainment, and cognitive ability. Reports that holistic thinkers preferred modes corresponding to their verbal imagery style, whereas analytic thinkers were divided across the verbal imagery dimension. Predicts highest achievement for wholist verbalizers and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Style, Educational Research, Elementary Education
Stewart, Sharon Rowe – 1986
The study examined the use of expository text structure as a reading and writing strategy with 15 learning-disabled adolescents, 15 normally achieving adolescents, and 15 normally achieving fourth graders. Two reading tasks required students to recognize sequence or comparison-contrast text structure. The third task required students to write…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Cohesion (Written Composition), Learning Disabilities, Learning Strategies
Smith, Ann – 1986
Educational institutions need to recognize and accommodate the individual needs of learners from culturally diverse backgrounds, of whom a large number are Blacks and Hispanics. To accommodate the educational needs of these learners, educators need to build on their entry-level strengths, which have been identified as: (1) orientation toward…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Computer Assisted Instruction, Cultural Differences, Cultural Traits

Kurtz, Beth E.; Borkowski, John G. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1987
Examines the relationships between metamemory and strategic behavior in impulsive and reflective children. Children in three experimental groups received (1) prose summarization instructions; (2) summarization instructions in conjunction with meta-cognitive training about the importance of a reflective approach to learning; or (3) no instructions.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Learning Strategies
Clement, John – 1987
Evidence from video tapes of experts thinking aloud and using analogies in scientific problem solving is presented. Four processes appear to be important in using an analogy: (1) generating the analogy; (2) establishing confidence in the validity of the analogy relation; (3) understanding the analogous case; and (4) applying findings to the…
Descriptors: Analogy, Cognitive Structures, Cognitive Style, College Science
Worthley, Karin Marie Evenson – 1987
This research examined the learning style factor of field dependence/independence and the problem solving strategies of Hmong male refugee students 17 years old and older who were attending or planning to attend post secondary education institutions in Wisconsin and Minnesota. The research was conducted from July 1986 to July 1987 to test two…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Field Dependence Independence

Tamir, Pinchas – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1985
Presents meta-analysis of 54 articles and dissertations dealing with cognitive preferences. Information provided includes: test reliability; comparisons by country, grade level, gender, disciplines, and curricula; relationships between cognitive preferences and career orientation, science achievement, interest, and aptitude; and effect sizes.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Style, Cognitive Tests, Educational Research

Harrison, Bruce; And Others – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 1989
Approximately half of a group of 12-year-old students were taught fraction and ratio topics by a concrete process-oriented method. The others were taught in the regular way. The concrete, process-oriented approach resulted in significantly improved achievement in, and attitude toward, fractions and ratios. (Author/DC)
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Cognitive Style, Fractions, Junior High School Students

Webster, Daniel G.; Muir, James J. – Teaching of Psychology, 1995
Reports on the comparative effectiveness of demonstration and lecture formats for presenting physiological measures. Although demonstrations may improve retention of information concerning simple procedures, the lecture format is more effective for complex information. (CFR)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Style, Demonstrations (Educational), Educational Strategies
Dean, Raymond S.; Gray, Jeffrey W. – 1985
Research has suggested that the two hemispheres of the brain serve specialized functions, with the most recent studies portraying the left hemisphere as processing information in a linear, serial, or sequential manner and the right hemisphere as processing information in a holistic, concrete, or visual mode. Although few systematic studies have…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adults, Brain, Cerebral Dominance

Okebukola, Peter Akinsola – Science Education, 1985
A study comparing cooperative and competitive learning approaches in science was conducted with 630 eighth-grade Nigerian students using five different treatments. Combinations of cooperation and competition were found to be the best methods of instruction. Procedural demands on teachers using these methods were relatively easy. (DH)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Style, Competition, Cooperation