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Buonviri, Nathan – International Journal of Music Education, 2015
The purpose of this study was to investigate effects of music notation reinforcement on aural memory for melodies. Participants were 41 undergraduate and graduate music majors in a within-subjects design. Experimental trials tested melodic memory through a sequence of target melodies, distraction melodies, and matched and unmatched answer choices.…
Descriptors: Music Education, Musical Composition, Reinforcement, Aural Learning
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Kear, Karen; Chetwynd, Frances; Williams, Judith; Donelan, Helen – Computers & Education, 2012
This paper reports on a pilot investigation into web conferencing in a distance learning module. It focuses on the perceptions and experiences of the tutors, all of whom were new to the web conferencing environment, but were experienced in online teaching. A number of web conferencing tutorials were studied through the collection of various…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Web Based Instruction, Online Courses, Learning Modules
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Hateley, R. J. – School Science Review, 1979
Presents a pilot study on student thinking in chemistry. Verbal comments of a group of six college students were recorded and analyzed to identify how each student arrives at the correct answer in fixed response items in chemisty. (HM)
Descriptors: Chemistry, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Educational Research
Lackey, James R. – 1994
The elements of statistical formulae that cause people to perceive them as difficult were studied, working from theoretical bases that involve cognitive load, motivational perception, and impasse driven learning. In a pilot study conducted to identify difficulties that novices perceive while learning statistical formulae, 22 students in an…
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Equations (Mathematics)
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Moreno, Virginia; Di Vesta, Francis J. – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1994
In 2 experiments involving a total of 43 college students, adages (relational metaphors) were found to facilitate processing of general ideas and higher-order principles. The higher the degree of structural relations embedded in the titles of passages, the greater the recall and accessibility of system-related ideas. (SLD)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Advance Organizers, Cognitive Processes, College Students
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Hosenfeld, Carol – College ESL, 1995
Explores some of the theory and practice in English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) reading and identifies two academic fields of inquiry with much to offer ESL students, that is, cognitive instructional theory and cognitive science. The article poses questions asked by teachers who have ESL students in their classrooms and provides answers by ESL…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Change Agents, Cognitive Processes, College Students
Blai, Boris, Jr. – 1973
A pilot study to investigate the views of Sir Herbert Read on art education is presented. The views include: (1) Real art education (visual language) represents a group of stimuli-response behaviors which direct and shape us; (2) The policy of education through art is based on the hypothesis that the images we evoke in the course of any kind of…
Descriptors: Art Education, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Comparative Analysis
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers