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Kumar, S. Praveen; Raja, B. William Dharma – Journal on Educational Psychology, 2009
Not all children are made the same. Learning disabilities like dyslexia, dysgraphia or dyscalculia are either not understood or ignored in schools. As a result, the schoolchildren suffer for no fault of theirs and they lag behind in their course of learning. They may find it difficult to achieve the basic skills of learning such as reading,…
Descriptors: Visual Learning, Teaching Methods, Learning Disabilities, Computation
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Issing, Ludwig J. – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 1990
Reports results of two studies using physics materials to determine the parameters of pictorial analogies in combination with expository text. Shows that pictorial analogies can improve learning significantly if they are designed properly and used together with the text. Concludes that the analogies should have high structural similarity between…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Physics, Science Education, Secondary Education
Braden, Roberts A., Ed.; Walker, Alice D., Ed. – 1983
The 40 papers in this collection cover a wide variety of topics within the broad field of visual literacy. Three preliminary papers discuss visualization through film. The second section, which emphasizes visualization in a social context, contains 10 papers addressing cultural, political, social, and psychological issues, touching upon such…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Instructional Materials, Teaching Methods, Technological Advancement
Hodes, Carol L. – 1993
Two instructional variables, visual illustrations and visual mental imagery, were compared for their influences on learning and cognitive strategies. It was hypothesized, based on dual-code theory, that attempts to combine the two would facilitate learning. In a completely randomized factorial design, treatments consisted of 4 versions of a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cardiovascular System, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis