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Daisy C. Berman – ProQuest LLC, 2021
In view of the potential benefits that computers can bring to older adults, it is advantageous that they acquire a basic understanding of computer function. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it became necessary to register for vaccines online, and this posed a problem for some older adults who were neither knowledgeable in using computers nor had…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Internet, Computer Literacy, Test Construction
Gover, Glen Bruce – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This qualitative phenomenological case study is designed to investigate the learning outcomes, lived experiences, and perceptions of eight post-secondary teachers participating in a sketch-based infographic development training program. This research is designed to assess the viability of infographics as a learning and assessment strategy,…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Visual Aids, Graphic Arts, Visualization
Cunningham, Rhonda Phillips – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Research has suggested many children with learning disabilities (LD) have deficits in working memory (WM) that hinder their academic achievement. Cogmed RM, a computerized intervention, uses adaptive training over 25 sessions and has shown efficacy in improving WM in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and a variety of…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Short Term Memory, Academic Achievement, Children
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Goransson, Anne – 1999
The research reported is an experimental study on the effects of intensified education of Swedish parents of children with amblyopia (dimness of sight without apparent organic defect) on their understanding of the nature of the disease, its origins, and treatment. Parents in the control group (n=60) were exposed to the ordinary information…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Early Intervention, Etiology, Foreign Countries