This looks at studied the effects of cognitive and behavioral orienting activities and practice on learning of cued and uncued information by 54 ninth-grade students. Variables are orienting activity, student ability, content cueing, and practice. Results are presented. (Author/MT)

The effects of various interactive video instructional control options and practice on learning were examined in this study. The interactive video lesson was a 30-minute videotape designed to introduce cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Subjects were 48 graduate and undergraduate volunteers, none of whom had prior experience with CPR or…

This study examined the effects of judgmental and nonjudgmental computer assisted instruction on self-esteem and mathematics achievement of remedial junior high students. Although no statistically significant differences were found between treatment groups, this was probably due to study's short-term nature, rather than absence of relationship…

The effects of cognitive and behavioral orienting activities and practice on student learning of cued and uncued information were examined in this study. The subjects were 54 grade 9 students (28 males and 26 females), who were classified as high or low ability based on the verbal intelligence estimate of the Iowa Test of Basic Skills. These…

A study was carried out at Pennsylvania State University to examine the effects of both textual and computer animated orienting activities--i.e., mediators through which new information is presented to the learner--and practice on the application and problem solving skills of elementary school students. It was hypothesized that students provided…