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Peer reviewedRiding, Richard; Mathias, David – Educational Psychology: An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology, 1991
Presents results of a study of 11-year-old children's learning mode preferences, reading attainment, and cognitive ability. Reports that holistic thinkers preferred modes corresponding to their verbal imagery style, whereas analytic thinkers were divided across the verbal imagery dimension. Predicts highest achievement for wholist verbalizers and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Style, Educational Research, Elementary Education
Download full textAndrulis, Richard S.; Alio, Jeanne P. – 1976
In 1974-1975, a preliminary study was undertaken to investigate the presence of learning disabilities in adults. Previously completed research studies have focused entirely upon the child and adolescent, with a direct concentration on remediation of this problem. Learning disabilities, currently estimated to afflict ten million school-aged…
Descriptors: Academically Handicapped, Adult Learning, Cognitive Ability, Educational Research
Gray, Jerry L. – 1976
This study investigates the preference and ability components of cognitive style as measured by a verbal test for fifth-grade children. Performances from an intellectual ability test, a pictorial cognitive style test, and school achievement tests were included as construct validity variables. The results supported conclusions drawn by Robinson and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adaptation Level Theory, Children, Cognitive Ability
