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Williams, Judy – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Reading is a basic life skill. Unfortunately, in 2007, only 29% of all eighth graders were able to comprehend at or above a proficient reading comprehension level. Sensory learning styles (kinesthetic, tactile, auditory, and visual) affect the way that students prefer to learn and the areas in which they will have difficulty learning. This study…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Daily Living Skills, Reading Comprehension, Visual Learning
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Stewart, Brandie M.; Cipolla, Jessica M.; Best, Lisa A. – Campus-Wide Information Systems, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine if university students could accurately extract information from graphs presented in 2D or 3D formats with different colour hue variations or solid black and white. Design/methodology/approach: Participants are presented with 2D and 3D bar and pie charts in a PowerPoint presentation and are asked to…
Descriptors: Reaction Time, Graphs, Statistics, Mathematics Instruction
Sachs, David A.; And Others – 1971
Learning sets programs were administered to preschool deaf children from a variety of representative educational programs throughout the southwest to improve their visual perception skills. The concept of learning sets was described as progression from trial-and-error learning to immediate problem solving by insight. The project consisted of six…
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Hearing Impairments, Learning Processes, Preschool Children
Dwyer, Carol A.; And Others – 1993
The purpose of the study reported in this paper was to examine the effect of visuals possessing different amounts of realistic detail and the effects of integrating covert and overt rehearsal strategies into visually complemented prose instruction. A total of 128 university students participated in the study, which involved a prose text on the…
Descriptors: College Students, Educational Research, Higher Education, Illustrations
Wood, Nancy E. – 1970
This report describes an experiment concerned with a possible relationship between the inability to learn basic educational skills, such as reading and writing, and the inability to organize incoming stimuli for communication purposes, in spite of adequate intellectual potential. The study had three main tasks. The first problem was to develop a…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Testing, Educational Experiments
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Egeland, Byron; And Others – 1976
Thirty-five second-grade learning disabled children participated in a visual information processing training program designed to teach analysis of visual material into component parts, systematic scanning of visual arrays, pick-up, description, and memory storage of distinctive information, and efficient solution of visual match-to-sample…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academically Handicapped, Achievement Tests, Cognitive Processes