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Peer reviewedDe Soto, Janet L.; De Soto, Clinton B. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1983
The relationship between reading achievement and ability to process verbal information in achieving and nonachieving fourth-grade readers is examined. Evaluation of verbal processing abilities indicated that achieving readers performed better on all abilities measured except automatic word processing. (Author/PN)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Intermediate Grades, Low Achievement, Memory
Download full textBOHM, AUDREY M. – 1966
AN EXPERIMENT WAS DESIGNED TO TEST THE HYPOTHESIS THAT, WITH MATERIAL OF HIGH MEANINGFULNESS, THE SEMANTIC DIMENSION OF SYNONYMITY (BATTLE-FIGHT) WILL HAVE GREATER IMPACT ON THE LEARNING PROCESS THAN THE DIMENSION OF FORMAL SIMILARITY (BATTLE-BOTTLE). THE LEARNING MATERIALS CONSISTED OF FOUR LISTS OF 12 PAIRS OF TWO-SYLLABLE WORDS. THEY WERE…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Instructional Materials, Learning Processes, Learning Theories
Asher, Steven R. – Proceedings, 80th Annual Convention, APA, 1972, 1972
Research was conducted to determine the degree to which sampling vs. comparison processes account for age changes in referential communication. Children at three different grade levels communicated referents within related and unrelated word pairs. The word pairs used were from Cohen and Klein (1968). From their list of 30 related pairs, half were…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Analysis of Variance, Associative Learning, Child Development
