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Download full textBrooks, Larry W.; And Others – 1981
The present study evaluated the effectiveness of embedded headings, with and without instructions on their usage, as processing aids for text material. It was expected that the Instructions/Headings group would outperform both the Headings Only and Control (no instructions or headings) groups, and that the performance of the Headings Only group…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Higher Education, Individual Differences, Language Processing
Davey, Beth – 1989
In an effort to predict whether field dependent readers would be adversely affected by postreading tasks involving high memory demands and requiring restructuring skills, a study assessed how the field dependent-independent cognitive style may be related to performance on reading comprehension question tasks for school-age learners. Subjects, 55…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Field Dependence Independence
