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Riding, R. J.; Tempest, J. – Educational Psychology, 1986
Seventy-two 11-year-old students were tested on 32 dictated words containing two levels of both visual and phonemic complexity. Students were grouped within sexes on their extraversion scores on the Junior Eysenck Personality Inventory and quotients on the Raven's Matrices. Spelling performance was found to interact significantly with level of…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Style, Foreign Countries, Intermediate Grades
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Sadler-Smith, Eugene; Allinson, Christopher W.; Hayes, John – Management Learning, 2000
Cognitive style is one factor that may influence individuals' preferences for different learning methods and activities related to continuous professional development. Explores the cognitive styles and learning preferences of personnel practitioners (n=127) in the United Kingdom. Finds that the relationship between cognitive style and preference…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Adult Education, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
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Severiens, Sabine; ten Dam, Geert – Educational Psychology, 1997
Summarizes the results of a study of 432 adult secondary students. The study examined the relationship between learning style, gender identity of the student, the subject taught, and the gender of the teacher. Multivariate techniques reveal gender identity to be the most significant factor in learning style differences. (MJP)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Restructuring, Cognitive Style
Foorman, Barbara R.; And Others – 1985
This investigation examined the effectiveness of training Japanese and American children with a visual animation/construction or verbal labelling strategy for solving computerized geometric matrices that were correctly or incorrectly completed and varied in number of elements (l to 3) and number of transformations (0 to 2). Subjects were 209…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Computer Assisted Instruction, Cross Cultural Studies, Elementary Secondary Education