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Watts, Christopher; Simons, Janet Thomas; Baird, David – EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 2010
In 2007, Hamilton College, Colgate University, and St. Lawrence University received a grant from the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE) Instructional Innovation Fund to take stock of the ways in which multimodal assignments were being used on campuses and to look in particular at the ways in which such assignments…
Descriptors: Intermode Differences, Learning Modalities, Scholarship, Assignments
Nugent, Gwen C. – Educational Communication and Technology: A Journal of Theory, Research, and Development, 1982
Studies whether presentations by an iconic system (pictures) or a linguistic system (print or audio) aid learning. Tests given fourth-to-sixth graders showed alternation between systems, using each to assimilate information. Learning was not as effective when content differed between the systems and this information was presented simultaneously…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Instruction, Aural Learning, Intermediate Grades, Intermode Differences
Winn, Bill – 1982
Relationships between media format, sensory channel, and cognitive information processing are not straightforward. Media format does not determine information processing and storage except when a deliberate attempt is made to model cognitive processes by manipulating the medium. Sensory channel only affects processing and learning for relatively…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Individual Differences, Instructional Materials
Raburn, Josephine; Tyson, LaWanda – 1982
The effect of background music with lecture tapes, filmstrips, and films in teaching freshman psychology concepts was investigated. Comparisons were made of media effect on visual or non-visual (haptic) and male or female learners, using experiments of 60 students each, with 20 subjects used for all treatment conditions. Three classes viewed…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Audiovisual Instruction, College Freshmen, Filmstrips
Hannafin, Michael J. – 1982
The consistency of verbal and/or visual learning strategy and the effects of such strategies on the recall of concrete and abstract prose by third and fourth grade students were investigated. Using a learning strategy screening procedure, students were classified as demonstrating high, medium, or low dominance of verbal or visual learning…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Audiovisual Aids, Audiovisual Instruction, Elementary Education
Lord, Harold C. – 1973
The purpose of this pilot study was to test the hypothesis that the mean number of correct responses to pictorial items (line drawings) would be significantly higher than the mean number of correct responses to verbal (printed word) items. The items tested were selected from the items included in a posttest administered to 33 first grade students…
Descriptors: Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Educational Technology, Handicapped Children, Intermode Differences