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Direct linkAlomyan, Hesham Raji – Australian Educational Computing, 2016
This paper reports a study, which investigated whether different instructional strategies might interact with individual's cognitive style in learning. A web-based learning package was designed employing three strategies, Interactive Concept Maps, Illustration with Embedded Text and Text-Only. Group Embedded Figure Test was administered to 178…
Descriptors: Web Based Instruction, Teaching Methods, Cognitive Style, Concept Mapping
Smith-Sterling, Carolyn L. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this study was to determine whether faculty members with cognitive styles that match the cognitive styles of their department chairpersons are more effective than faculty members whose cognitive styles do not match that of their department chairpersons. Additionally, this study investigated the relationship between faculty members'…
Descriptors: Department Heads, College Faculty, College Students, Student Attitudes
Download full textAl-Salameh, Emad M. – International Education Studies, 2011
This study aims to investigate the (field-dependent & field-independent) cognitive style and its relation with gender, academic specialization and GPA among BAUS. A stratified sample of (600) Students was chosen. The Arabic version of GEFT was administrated. Results can be summarized as follows: There were no statistically significant…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cognitive Style, College Students, Gender Differences
Hite, Clare E. – Reading Research and Instruction, 2004
The purpose of this investigation was to determine if cognitive style (field dependence/independence [FD/I]) and gender interact with passage content to affect reading comprehension. Research on FD/I and its relationship to reading-related and other academic tasks served as the theoretical and empirical basis for the study. While most of the…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Cognitive Style, Gender Differences, Cognitive Ability
Peer reviewedLusk, Edward J.; Wright, Haviland – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1981
The Group Embedded Figures Test was administered to 416 randomly selected college students in science, liberal arts, business, or mathematics classes. No sex differences in performance or improvement were found when differences in curriculum were taken into account. (SJL)
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Style, College Students, Correlation
Massa, Laura J.; Mayer, Richard E.; Bohon, Lisa M. – Learning & Individual Differences, 2005
The gender role hypothesis posits that performance on a cognitive ability test is influenced by whether the test instructions frame the test as measuring a skill that is consistent or inconsistent with the test taker's gender role beliefs. The Bem sex role inventory was used to measure the gender role of female college students, and the group…
Descriptors: Females, Cognitive Ability, Spatial Ability, Empathy
Young, Johnny M. – 1984
Recent reports have shown that black high school and college students do not fare well on standardized tests, possibly because they have not been successful when dealing with materials requiring analytical thinking in the past. Several psychologists have found that mental imagery can be used to increase motivation to achieve idealized goals.…
Descriptors: Black Students, Cognitive Style, College Students, Counseling Techniques
Peer reviewedCollins-Eiland, Karen; And Others – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1986
To evaluate the effects of conversational noise on the comprehension/retention of 2000-word text excerpts, two groups were randomly formed. Group I (n=20) studied under noise conditions and Group 2 (n=24) studied under nonnoise conditions. Overall ANCOVAs indicated no significant differences between groups but identifiable subgroups showed…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Field Dependence Independence, Higher Education
Ogden, Darlene H. – 1993
Free verbal responses to pictures as an indication of cognitive style were studied for 199 college students, at Eastern Kentucky University. The Group Embedded Figures Test (GEFT) was administered following presentation of the pictures, a series of colored pictures of simple, medium and complex configuration. Responses given to three graduate…
Descriptors: Chi Square, Cognitive Style, College Students, Field Dependence Independence
Cameron, Brian; Dwyer, Francis – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2005
Online and computer-based instructional gaming is becoming a viable instructional strategy at all levels of education. The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of (a) gaming, (b) gaming plus embedded questions, and (c) gaming plus questions plus feedback on delayed retention of different types of educational objectives for students…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Educational Objectives, Feedback, Cognitive Style
