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Annis, Linda – 1979
In a study designed to relate research on cognitive style to study technique effectiveness, a group of 129 college freshmen was given a test to assess the cognitive style of each. The 93 students who scored in the upper l/3 and in the lower l/3 of the distribution were classified as field independent and field dependent. These 93 students were…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Higher Education, Individual Characteristics
Furnam, John P. – 1975
The objectives of this study were to determine the effect post-adjunct questions exert on: learning from oral and written instruction, learning by high and low ability readers, and learning material which requires different levels of intellectual processing. No significant main effects occurred between question and no-question groups. Post-adjunct…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Individual Differences, Learning Modalities, Learning Processes
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Readence, John E.; Moore, David W. – Psychology in the Schools, 1981
Overall findings of this meta-analysis reveal small effects of adjunct pictures on reading comprehension. No advantage was found when traditional v nontraditional text settings were compared. Line drawings seem to facilitate comprehension and color pictures seem to have a greater effect than black and white pictures. (Author)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Illustrations
Lindeman, Mary L. – 1981
A study was conducted to determine the degree of relationship between eye movement patterns and cognitive mapping as determined by the Cognitive Style Mapping Instrument (CSMI). It was hypothesized that a high correlation exists between a predominance of visual and auditory eye movement patterns and the visual and auditory cognitive mapping styles…
Descriptors: Adults, Auditory Perception, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style
Bartels, Laura Grand; Feinbloom, Jessica – 1981
Ten concrete nouns represented in either a pictorial or a linguistic mode and accompanied by ten nonsense syllables were shown to 77 college students in a study of how pictorial stimuli varied in recall and recognition tasks. The group receiving pictorial stimuli recalled and recognized significantly more nonsense syllables than did the group…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Instructional Materials, Learning Modalities
Heerman, Charles E. – 1983
A college reading laboratory was designed and furnished to maximize flexibility in space use. To determine the effectiveness of the design and use of space, a two-part study was conducted that examined students' learning preferences and collected instructors' observations. Responses indicated student preferences for sound, light, warmth, and…
Descriptors: Classroom Design, Design Preferences, Furniture Arrangement, Higher Education
Hancock, Anne Campbell; Byrd, Diana – 1984
A study tested the hypothesis that learning disabled (LD), specifically reading disabled, children differ from "normal" children in their ability to acquire automatic perceptual processes. The subjects were 16 third grade and 15 sixth grade students, of whom 7 third grade and 3 sixth grade students were classified as LD. LaBerge's letter…
Descriptors: Attention, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Testing
Whyte, Jean; Harland, Rosemary – 1981
A study investigated the proposition that males have a predominant tendency to encode visually when reading, whereas females tend to encode phonologically. Arabic symbols were used to teach a group of 24 college students to "read." Subjects were assigned randomly to one of two conditions: learning the symbols as "letters" one by one with the aid…
Descriptors: College Students, Females, Higher Education, Learning Modalities