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Direct linkBonanno, Philip; Kommers, P. A. M. – Educational Psychology, 2005
This paper reports work in progress investigating gender differences and styles in the use of digital games amongst advanced level biology students. It is an elaboration on previous work exploring the relationship between cognitive style and academic performance in Maltese students taking biology at advanced level. In this previous work the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Academic Achievement, Computers, Gender Differences
Peer reviewedCherkes, Miriam – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1983
The processing of a transitivity task by 7-, 9-, 11-, and 13-year-old learning disabled children was studied. All Ss, regardless of age, received highest scores on tasks involving linguistic input. There was no evidence of a developmental shift from spatial into linguistic reasoning. (Author/SEW)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Developmental Stages, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Disabilities
Stericker, Anne; LeVesconte, Shirley – 1981
Researchers disagree not only about the existence or magnitude of sex-related differences in spatial perception, but also about the determinants of such differences. Training in three distinct spatial tasks was provided in an attempt to destablize individual and sex-related differences, while exploring the relative contributions of biological and…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adults, Biological Influences, Cognitive Style
Beals, Mark G. – 1981
The main thrust of American education has been cognitively oriented. Recent research on the human brain suggests that such orientation is a general function of only one hemisphere of the brain, the left. Because of the close relationships among speech, language, thinking, reasoning, and the higher mental functions, the left brain hemisphere…
Descriptors: Cerebral Dominance, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Convergent Thinking
Holtzman, Elsa Hernandez; And Others – 1979
An overview of cognitve styles and research in the field of field dependence/field independence within the context of the special needs of Hispanic students is presented. Various studies by Witkin et al. on the dimension of field dependence/field independence required the subject to perceive an item independently of the field or context that…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Style, Hispanic Americans
Guthrie, Patricia J.; Su, Chun-Min – 1992
Conclusions derived from drawing research indicate that young children can be trained to see and respond to the distinctions of their observation and that these distinctions can enrich their drawing experiences. These distinctions include spatial information obtained from observation. Three basic factors influence young children's spatial…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Childrens Art, Cognitive Development
Reifschneider, Thomas J., Ed.; And Others – 1982
The papers in this monograph were presented at the first annual conference on theories and research related to learning styles, hemisphericity, and other cognitive-related issues in education. They include: (1) "The Microcomputer and Learning Theory" (Carl Edeburn); (2) "Poems Take Two Brains (or: Poetry Ain't for Halfwits)" (Jack Kreitzer); (3)…
Descriptors: Cerebral Dominance, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Style, Computer Literacy
