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Peer reviewedPrather, P A; Bacon, Joshua – Child Development, 1986
Describes preschool children's ability to simultaneously perceive multiple aspects of an object in two experiments during which three- to five-year-olds were asked to describe part/whole pictures. (HOD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Metacognition, Perceptual Development, Pictorial Stimuli
Download full textYoung, Vivienne; Wright, E. N. – 1973
A research project investigated the extent to which children's visual awareness and visual literacy were developed through photography. Thirty-four elementary school students were provided with Polaroid "Big Swinger" cameras; they were given one roll of film per day for eight weeks and allowed to photograph whatever they liked. After…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary School Students, Photographs, Photography
Munroe, Ruth H.; Munroe, Robert L. – Claremont Coll Reading Conf 33rd Yearbook, 1969
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Perception Tests, Pictorial Stimuli, Reading Research
Dwyer, Carol A.; And Others – 1993
The purpose of the study reported in this paper was to examine the effect of visuals possessing different amounts of realistic detail and the effects of integrating covert and overt rehearsal strategies into visually complemented prose instruction. A total of 128 university students participated in the study, which involved a prose text on the…
Descriptors: College Students, Educational Research, Higher Education, Illustrations
Travers, Robert M. W. – 1969
Beginning with a survey of work previously done on the subject, this study attempts to learn more about how, and to what extent, children benefit from pictorial illustrations, with a view to improving instructional materials. Three areas were investigated with experiments using children from nursery schools and kindergarten to sixth grade. The…
Descriptors: Children, Cues, Educational Research, Instructional Improvement
Cleaver, Betty P.; And Others – 1993
This paper examines children's responses to black and white illustrations in particular silhouettes. The study had two components; the first examined fifth graders' reactions to picture books using silhouette illustrations. The second part of the research analyzed students' responses when a dramatic context was used to view and respond to selected…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Illustrations, Imagination, Intermediate Grades
Williams, Catharine M. – 1968
Well prepared, carefully chosen, two-dimensional visual aids are valuable in the learning process as a source of information and as a stimulator of student response. A student's visual perception and his degree of self-awareness can be evaluated by his reaction to pictures. At the instructional level, pictures can expand an experience, dramatize a…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Audiovisual Instruction, Illustrations, Instructional Materials
Ball, John, Ed.; Byrnes, Francis C., Ed. – 1960
Under the sponsorship of the National Project in Agricultural Communications, a series of 14 lessons by various authors has been compiled to serve as a reader or training manual in the field of visual communications. Several models of communications are outlined and evaluated. Many studies which concern themselves with the concepts of source,…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Audiovisual Communications, Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer)
