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Hurt, Jeffry A. – Educational Communication and Technology Journal, 1987
Describes study of undergraduates conducted to test the effectiveness of illustrations in texts, based on two hypotheses concerned with the differences between analogical and literal illustrations in serving two specific instructional functions and ways in which male and female students utilize illustrations. Results are analyzed, and…
Descriptors: Analogy, Analysis of Variance, Cartoons, Comparative Analysis
Cohen, Peter A.; And Others – Educational Communication and Technology: A Journal of Theory, Research, and Development, 1981
Describes a statistical integration of findings from 74 studies of visual-based college teaching. Results indicating that students in such instruction generally learned slightly more but that there was no effect on course completion rates or student attitudes are discussed, and 19 references are provided. (Author/BK)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Bibliographies, Comparative Analysis
Turnage, Thomas W.; McGinnies, Elliott – 1970
The study investigates the effects of linguistic medium (English vs. Chinese), mode of stimulus presentation (visual vs. auditory), and noun frequency on short-term serial recall and serial learning. The results indicate that auditory input facilitates learning for American subjects but not for Taiwanese subjects, who learned somewhat faster with…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Chinese, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies
