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Verbal Information Hinders Young Children's Ability to Gain Modality Specific Knowledge
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Waters, Gillian M.; Beck, Sarah R. – Infant and Child Development, 2015
In two experiments, we investigated whether having prior experience of objects influenced young children's ability to solve a metacognitive search task, based on the objects' perceptual properties. In Experiment 1, 100 children (mean age 77?months) chose whether to look or feel to locate one of two hidden balls (identifiable by sight or touch).…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Experience, Young Children, Metacognition
An Educational System to Help Students Assess Website Features and Identify High-Risk Websites
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Kajiyama, Tomoko; Echizen, Isao – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2015
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to propose an effective educational system to help students assess Web site risk by providing an environment in which students can better understand a Web site's features and determine the risks of accessing the Web site for themselves. Design/methodology/approach: The authors have enhanced a prototype…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Technological Literacy, Information Literacy, Visualization
Conflict-Induced Perceptual Filtering
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Wendt, Mike; Luna-Rodriguez, Aquiles; Jacobsen, Thomas – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2012
In a variety of conflict paradigms, target and distractor stimuli are defined in terms of perceptual features. Interference evoked by distractor stimuli tends to be reduced when the ratio of congruent to incongruent trials is decreased, suggesting conflict-induced perceptual filtering (i.e., adjusting the processing weights assigned to stimuli…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Conflict, Models, Stimuli
Oversize Color Images Project, 1994-1995. A Report to the Commission on Preservation and Access.
Gertz, Janet – 1995
This report provides results of the first phase of a project to identify acceptable preservation and digital access techniques for dealing with oversize, color images associated with text. The goal of Phase I was to provide a preservation-quality photographic archival copy, a digital version for online access, and paper printouts. Five maps from…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Archives, Color, Maps
Color Microfiche: Applications to Biomedical Optometric Education.
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Wing, Joan Tanabe; Chronister, Connie; Whittaker, Stephen G.; Crozier, Gilda C. – Optometric Education, 1999
A color microfiche containing ocular tissue section images was developed and introduced into an ocular history and embryology course to enhance student access to such images. Students found that the materials enhanced their ability to learn. Faculty found that the materials allowed students to prepare in advance for the laboratory, freeing class…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Allied Health Occupations Education, Color, Higher Education
Proceedings of the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age (CELDA) (Madrid, Spain, October 19-21, 2012)
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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