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Contreras, Maximiliano – 1985
People of different cultures differ in the cognitive style they use. Research reports that Mexican American children indicate a preference for field-sensitive cognitive strategies that are spatial-holistic, and middle class children a preference for field-independent strategies that are verbal-analytic. Brain research in hemisphericity appears to…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Cultural Differences
Download full textPackard, Abbot L.; And Others – 1997
The instructional design possibilities of a computer-assisted learning environment that would provide feedback to students in an introductory statistics class were studied. Cognitive styles that were thought to relate to mathematical or statistical processes were tested, including field independence and field dependence, locus of control, and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, College Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Feedback
