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Andres, Hayward P.; Akan, Obasi H. – Journal of International Education in Business, 2015
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to determine if "fit" and "non-fit" between authoritarian versus demonstrator teaching and visual versus verbal learning preferences differ in impact on Chinese MBA student academic performance in a large local urban Chinese university setting. In addition, the role of Chinese cultural…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cognitive Style, Graduate Students, Masters Degrees
Tennyson, Robert D. – 1973
An experiment replicated and extended a previous study on the value of negative instances in concept learning (i.e., an instance of something which does not exemplify the concept helps to make clear what the concept is). In this experiment, the concept to be learned was "adverb". The subjects were seventh grade students. Some groups of subjects…
Descriptors: Adverbs, Comparative Analysis, Concept Formation, Generalization
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Israel, Everett N. – Journal of Epsilon Pi Tau, 1976
Three types of instructional guidelines (verbal, nonverbal, and demonstration) were tested to determine the type of instructional strategy that would result in junior and senior high school students' acquiring the largest amount of abstract learning related to a technical concept in industrial arts. Findings differed for the two age groups.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Concept Teaching, Demonstrations (Educational), Educational Strategies
GAETH, JOHN H.; AND OTHERS – 1960
COMBINED VISUAL-AUDITORY METHODS FOR TEACHING WERE TESTED, USING AURALLY HANDICAPPED AND NORMAL CHILDREN AS SUBJECTS, TO DEVELOP COMPARATIVE STATISTICS OF LEARNING ABILITY AND AUDITORY TRAINING BENEFITS OVER CONVENTIONAL UNISENSORY TEACHING TECHNIQUES. THE STUDY SAMPLE CONSISTED OF 2,500 CHILDREN. IN THE EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURE, THE CHILDREN WERE…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Groups, Audiovisual Instruction, Classroom Communication
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Moreno, Robert P. – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 1991
Examines the comparative research on maternal teaching behaviors of minority and low-status families. Offers some exploratory data that reexamines the verbal teaching behavior of Chicana- and Anglo-American mothers while instructing their children to tie their shoelaces. Contrary to earlier studies, the findings support that ethnic differences in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Anglo Americans, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Differences
Sigrest, Christine E. – 1992
A study assessed the effectiveness of three cognitive levels of instruction with first graders--three-dimensional (3-D) instruction using real objects, two-dimensional (2-D) instruction using picture representations, and verbal instruction. The study population included 18 first-grade students between the ages of 6 and 8 at a small elementary city…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Concept Formation, Elementary School Students