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Wilson, Elizabeth Anne Hamann – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Educational tools such as printed pamphlets and videos can enhance patients' understanding and memory of health-related information, but in order for such materials to be effective, designers of such tools should take care to understand the impact of variables such as the medium in which information is displayed, the type of information to be…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Patients, Program Effectiveness, Memory
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Gardner, Philip – History of Education, 2003
Explores the challenge presented by the exercise of memory, through oral history, as an historical method. Notes the use of historical data generated by memory projects. Concludes that memory recollection, as a historical medium, can be a resource for bearing witness to history's power to shape lives as individuals experience it. (KDR)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational History, Educational Methods, Educational Research
Forness, Steven R.; Kavale, Kenneth A. – Education and Training in Mental Retardation, 1993
A meta-analysis of 268 studies suggested a deficit in subjects with mental retardation (compared to controls without mental retardation) across 12 categories of learning tasks, a relative deficit which remained, after training, across 7 categories of strategies. When strategy training was evaluated, the effect size was 0.701, which compares…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Educational Methods, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Effectiveness
Marcinkiewicz, Henryk R.; And Others – 1996
This document summarizes the results of a study which evaluated whether school instruction with Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) keyboards improves memory skill and whether school instruction with MIDI keyboards improves sentiments toward school and instructional media. Pupils in early elementary grades at five schools were evaluated…
Descriptors: Educational Media, Educational Methods, Elementary Education, Evaluation
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Shannon, Maureen; Rice, Dale R. – Educational Research Quarterly, 1982
Hemispheric preferences of high and low ability, right-handed elementary school children (n=70) were investigated using the Your Style of Learning and Thinking instrument. Results showed a significant difference between the two groups on integrated responses, with the high ability group having a higher preference for integrated functioning…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Cerebral Dominance, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style
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Rao, Zhenhui – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2006
This study investigated Chinese students' use of language learning strategies, and then interpreted the data from cultural and educational perspectives. Using a Strategy Inventory for Language Learning, the researcher discovered some common features shared by Chinese students in their use of learning strategies. An in-depth analysis of the results…
Descriptors: Asian Culture, Learning Strategies, Foreign Countries, Language Teachers