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Peer reviewedMasztal, Nancy B. – Reading Research and Instruction, 1986
Describes a classroom technique that promotes higher levels of thought and enhances learning in graduate and undergraduate teacher education classes. (DF)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Group Instruction, Higher Education, Information Processing
Download full textKuo, Shang-Wu; Katz, Leonard – 1972
Two stimuli of either small or capital letters were presented successively by tachistoscopic projectors. College students serving as subjects were requested to respond "yes" if the first stimulus (only one letter) was physically identical to or the same name of one of the letters in the second stimulus. The display size of the second stimulus was…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Information Processing, Learning Processes
Wright, Paula J.; Cummings, H. Wayland – 1976
This study seeks to determine whether there are syntactic differences in the ways in which field dependent and field independent individuals write, and to determine whether these differences can account for the differences in interpersonal evaluations. One hundred sixty-five subjects were selected for this study by randomly selecting classes from…
Descriptors: College Students, Communication (Thought Transfer), Evaluation, Higher Education
Peer reviewedVanpatten, Bill; Cadierno, Teresa – Modern Language Journal, 1993
A study among college students investigated the effects on the developing knowledge system of the second-language learner of two different types of instruction: instruction as manipulation of output, and as structured or focused input processing. Results support the input-processing perspective and the salience of the role of input. (43…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education
Carey, Robert F.; Smith, Sharon L. – 1978
Overviews of schema theory, which focuses on the cognitive operations engaged in by the reader, and discourse analysis, which focuses on structural characteristics of the text itself, are presented in this paper. The first section explains the notion of cognitive schemata (patterns of expectations that are applied to incoming information) and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Discourse Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Peer reviewedWaldrop, M. Mitchell – Science, 1987
Explores the central thesis of cognitive science that the mind is an information processor. Discusses the study of reading as an opportunity to gain insight into how that processor works. Provides several examples that illustrate some of the relationships between eye movement, short-term memory, and long-term memory. (TW)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Psychology, College Science, Eye Fixations
Ahmad, K.; And Others – Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing Bulletin, 1978
Some of the problems facing undergraduates learning Russian can be dealt with effectively by using an online computer. A Russian numerals drill program (RUNEX) is described which aims to help the student in tackling the morphological arbitrariness and some aspects of the syntax of the Russian numerals. Paradigms are given for the numerals five,…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Computational Linguistics, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Programs
