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Bowen, Tracey; Evans, M. Max – Education for Information, 2015
The most common tools individuals use to articulate complex and abstract concepts are writing and spoken language, long privileged as primary forms of communication. However, our, explanations of these concepts may be more aptly communicated through visual means, such as drawings. Interpreting and analyzing abstract graphic representations is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Knowledge Representation, Learning Processes, Freehand Drawing
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Dodds, Allan G. – Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 1983
Differences in how the two hemispheres of the brain handle spatial information were studied with blind subjects and blindfolded sighted subjects. The performances of all groups declined as the relative disorientation between the target and its duplicate increased, suggesting that visual imagery is not crucial to mental rotation. (Author/SEW)
Descriptors: Adventitious Impairments, Blindness, Cerebral Dominance, Congenital Impairments
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Hicks, Carolyn – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 1980
Four experiments were carried out to examine the different recall strategies employed in a diagnostic test of visual sequential memory. The principal implication of the results is that good and poor readers may not differ with respect to visual memory but in their ability to employ a verbal labeling strategy. (Author/KC)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Psychology, Learning Modalities, Memory
Dunn, Thomas G.; Hansen, Duncan – 1972
Visuals, like pictures, charts, diagrams, graphics, and the like, are widely used in education. However, there is little justification in the research literature for their use. The overall purpose of this exploratory study was to find out more about the processing of visuals or graphics in an educational task. Specifically, it was thought that…
Descriptors: Charts, Computer Assisted Instruction, Critical Path Method, Diagrams
Sitz, Robert – 1995
A simulated art history textbook reading assignment was designed to examine the effects of visual information on student learning and understanding. A sample of 234 students was taken from a population of freshman/sophomore English students in a large metropolitan community college district. In phase one of the study, students took the Group…
Descriptors: Art Education, Art History, Cognitive Style, Community Colleges
Clement, Joseph David – 1975
To explore methods of visual communication as a supplement to bilingual education, 200 white male subjects were selected from a public school system in South Florida (100 from the first grade and 100 from the eighth grade) and were allowed to create visual statements from a standardized set of photos. Using primarily Latent Partition Analysis, the…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Bilingual Education, Educational Media, Elementary Education