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Peer reviewedAusubel, David P. – American Educational Research Journal, 1980
Anderson, Spiro, and Anderson (EJ 189 658) assert that the author's assimilation theory of meaningful learning and retention is "hopelessly vague." Documented examination of these assertions indicates that they are unspecified, unsubstantiated, undocumented, and based on indisputable misrepresentation of published material and on logical…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Learning Theories
Peer reviewedMayer, Richard E.; Massa, Laura J. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2003
Examines the hypothesis that some people are verbal learners and some people are visual learners. Presented a battery of 14 cognitive measures related to the visualizer-verbalizer dimension to 95 college students and then conducted correlational and factor analyses. Results have implications for how to conceptualize and measure individual…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Style, Learning Theories, Multiple Intelligences
Download full textGuilmet, George M. – 1976
A review of anthropological, psychological, and educational research pertaining to the quiet manner of American Indian students in classroom situations is presented. This phenomenon has been explained using the research perspectives of the learning style theory and interference theory. The learning style theory states that Indian children behave…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indians, Classroom Environment, Cognitive Processes
