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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
Musial, Diann; Maple, Robert – Illinois School Research, 1975
The primary purpose of the study was the improvement of reading, listening and verbal comprehension skills through the use of six weeks of compressed speech during language arts classes. (Author)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Listening Comprehension, Reading Comprehension, Speech Compression
Steinbrink, John E. – 1970
The study employed geography as the substantive content to develop and evaluate instructional materials that reflect one theoretical approach to teaching the disadvantaged -- Ausubel's model of verbal reception learning using advance organizers. It was hypothesized that 5th and 6th grade pupils would learn more geography content by using textual…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Advance Organizers, Area Studies