Descriptor
Difficulty Level | 2 |
Instructional Materials | 2 |
Visual Aids | 2 |
Visual Learning | 2 |
College Students | 1 |
Cues | 1 |
Elementary School Science | 1 |
Hearing Impairments | 1 |
Higher Education | 1 |
Illustrations | 1 |
Intermediate Grades | 1 |
More ▼ |
Source
American Annals of the Deaf | 1 |
Publication Type
Reports - Research | 2 |
Journal Articles | 1 |
Speeches/Meeting Papers | 1 |
Education Level
Audience
Location
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Jennings, Thomas; Dwyer, Francis M. – 1982
The effectiveness of elaborate visual cueing and reduced step size (i.e., increasing the number of visual cues) in facilitating student achievement on different instructional tasks was examined. The hypothesis proposed that instructional treatments utilizing reduced step size and elaborate visual cueing alone and in combination would be superior…
Descriptors: College Students, Cues, Difficulty Level, Higher Education

Diebold, Thomas J.; Waldron, Manjula B. – American Annals of the Deaf, 1988
Sixty hearing-impaired students, aged 12-22, studied one of four instructional formats describing basic science concepts. Comprehension gains were measured using a pretest-posttest procedure. Formats which featured highly pictorial content and simplified English produced significantly higher mean gain scores than formats with less pictorial…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Elementary School Science, Hearing Impairments, Instructional Materials