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Armitage, Kristy L.; Redshaw, Jonathan – Child Development, 2022
Ninety-seven children aged 4-11 (49 males, 48 females, mostly White) were given the opportunity to improve their problem-solving performance by devising and implementing a novel cognitive offloading strategy. Across two phases, they searched for hidden rewards using maps that were either aligned or misaligned with the search space. In the second…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Style, Cognitive Processes, Problem Solving
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Natalie Toomey; Misook Heo – Learning: Research and Practice, 2024
This research examined how spatial ability, sex, and cognitive styles associate with self-directed multimedia resource use (study 1) and learning outcomes (study 2). In study 1, three learning resource options were offered: two unimodal (text-only and labelled-picture) and one multimodal (picture-with-narration). Findings revealed that lower…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Gender Differences, Pictorial Stimuli, Task Analysis
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Sahin, Feride; Ates, Salih – Electronic Journal for Research in Science & Mathematics Education, 2023
The aim of this study is to examine whether the structural model that Sahin and Ates (2020) put forward about the relationship among students' scientific literacy levels, logical thinking ability, cognitive styles, mental capacity, and mental rotation ability differ in terms of gender. A causal-comparative model approach was used in this study.…
Descriptors: Scientific Literacy, Correlation, Individual Differences, Gender Differences
Weitzman, Donald O. – 1981
The study was designed to evaluate a hypothesis derived from recent trends in cognitive theory. The hypothesis concerned whether spatial environment information stored in memory is primarily analog or propositional. A related question concerned whether differences between analog and propositional processes underlie individual differences in the…
Descriptors: Adults, Analogy, Cognitive Style, Individual Differences
Hill, Don – Phi Delta Kappan, 1991
Recounts one teacher's experience at unsuccessfully solving spatial problems in a workshop experimenting with individualistic and cooperative learning approaches to problem solving. This humbling experience reminded the author that failure is humiliating and can arise from simply not knowing how to think about a task. All humans are "at-risk"…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Cognitive Style, Cooperative Learning, Elementary Secondary Education
Maiden, Patricia M.; Maiden, Robert J. – 1988
Although metamemory has recently received renewed interest by several investigators, individual differences in memory skills have received little if any attention. While individual differences in memory skills have common sense validity, these differences have been difficult to document experimentally. This study used a repeated measures design to…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, College Students, Higher Education, Individual Differences
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Schofield, Neville J.; Kirby, John R. – Cognition and Instruction, 1994
Examined task factors, cognitive processes, and individual differences as determinants of performance in 188 adults locating a position on a topographical map. Both spatial visualization ability and a visual learning style were found to be effective predictors of performance. A form of verbal strategy training produced significantly improved…
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Individual Differences
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Klein, Perry D. – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2003
Many educational theorists in recent decades have argued for the plurality of forms of knowledge, both in the mind and in the curriculum. Two popular ways of conceptualizing this plurality have claimed that individual students either differ in their "learning styles" or possess "multiple intelligences". Both theories have encountered numerous…
Descriptors: Multiple Intelligences, Cognitive Style, Learning Disabilities, Spatial Ability
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Checkley, Kathy – Educational Leadership, 1997
Reviews seven multiple-intelligence forms (linguistic, logical-mathematical, spatial, bodily kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal) and adds naturalist intelligence, the ability to discriminate among living things. Considers a ninth form (existential intelligence), challenges the IQ concept and common testing practices, and urges…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Cognitive Style, Definitions, Elementary Secondary Education
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Gitimu, Priscilla N.; Workman, Jane E.; Anderson, Marcia A. – Career and Technical Education Research, 2005
The study investigated how performance on a spatial task in apparel design was influenced by training and strategical information processing style. The sample consisted of 278 undergraduate apparel design students from six universities in the U.S. Instruments used to collect data were the Apparel Spatial Visualization Test (ASVT) and the…
Descriptors: Visualization, Spatial Ability, Information Processing, Cognitive Style
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De Lisi, Richard – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1983
Investigates the role of cognitive style in the ability of first-, third-, and fifth-graders to represent the horizontal coordinate. Students were observed on a portable rod-and-frame test of field dependence/independence and on water bottle and crossbar measures of horizontality representation. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Style, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
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Languis, Marlin L. – NASSP Bulletin, 1998
Reports on two studies. The first, a brain-imaging study evaluating brain-processing differences between high- and low- performing middle-school students attempting a spatial visualization task, establishes the connection between brain-processing patterns and task-learning efficiency. The second study, involving 33 women graduate education majors,…
Descriptors: Brain, Cognitive Style, Education Majors, Efficiency
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Pellicano, Elizabeth; Maybery, Murray; Durkin, Kevin – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2005
Background: Frith and Happe (1994) describe central coherence (CC) as the normal tendency to integrate individual elements into a coherent whole, a cognitive style which varies in the general population. Individuals with autism are at the extreme (weak) end of the continuum of coherence. There has been debate over whether CC is independent from…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Cognitive Style, Rhetoric, Autism
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Calcaterra, Andrea; Antonietti, Alessandro; Underwood, Jean – Computers and Education, 2005
This study examined the influence of cognitive style, spatial orientation and computer expertise on hypertext navigation patterns and learning outcomes when participants interacted with a hypermedia presentation. A sample of 306 undergraduates was pre-tested both on their cognitive style and on their self-reported frequency and ability in using…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Hypermedia, Spatial Ability, Undergraduate Students
Lockwood, Anne Turnbaugh – Research and the Classroom, 1993
The two articles in this newsletter issue focus on and discuss the multiple intelligences (MI) theory and its application in schools. Developed by Howard Gardner at Harvard University, the theory argues that individuals differ in their abilities, learning styles, and interests, and that these differences need to be acknowledged and nurtured in…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Educational Theories, Individual Differences, Intelligence