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Peer reviewedAdejumo, Dayo – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1983
The effect of cognitive style on the performance of four groups of college students (n=326) who used different strategies of study to comprehend prose was investigated. The cognitive styles of the subjects (field dependence/independence) interacted with the strategies of study and seem to affect performance on comprehension of prose at posttest.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Higher Education, Interaction, Learning Processes
Download full textRoid, Gale; And Others – 1980
Using informal, objectives-based, or linguistic methods, three elementary school teachers and three experienced item writers developed criterion-referenced pretests-posttests to accompany a prose passage. Item difficulites were tabulated on the responses of 364 elementary students. The informal-subjective method, used by many achievement test…
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Difficulty Level, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers
