Twenty-three tenth grade male students from an urban, parochial preparatory schools participated in this study, along with two male geometry teachers. On the basis of the Group Embedded Figures Test, one teacher was assigned field dependent students, and the other teacher was assigned field independent students. The field dependent class evaluated…

Witkin's concepts of field dependence-independence and restructing are discussed with reference to studies in Russia and in the Netherlands. These concepts are related to differences in style of perception and to success on both cognitive tasks and social tasks. It is suggested that restructing abilities may be trained and restructing ability may…

This study was designed to determine the relationship between children's reflection-impulsivity and responses to a forced choice of a toy for play (labelled as impulsivity) and the length of continued play with the selected toy (labelled as latency). A group of twenty four-year-olds, male and female, were observed making a choice between toys. The…

This study focuses on the mental processes used during estimation. This research: (1) developed an operational definition of estimation; (2) created an instrument to identify exceptionally good estimators; (3) collected performance level data on 1187 subjects; (4) constructed interview problems and developed protocols to identify the thinking…

This experimental study investigated (1) the effects of cognitive dissonance on the acquisition of conservation by field dependent (FD) and field independent (FI) elementary school students, and (2) the relationship between cognitive style and cognitive development. In the first phase of the experiment 248 students from kindergarten through third…

Twenty second grade students were tested to determine the possible relationships between concrete operations and reading and between cognitive clarity and reading achievement. The subjects performed six Piagetian conservation tasks and four tasks on cognitive clarity. Reading achievement was based on student records. The data on the relationship…

This study investigated a psycholinguistic model of reading comprehension which attempts to relate readers' conceptual backgrounds to their ability to process syntactic structures. Specifically, the questions addressed involved the interaction between cognitive organizers and active and passive voices of verbs. Subjects included 409 third graders,…

Three items are described in this paper: the individual difference variable of cognitive style, research which has implicated cognitive style and reading achievement, and beginning reading research which uses cognitive style as a dependent variable. The contents include "Cognitive Style," which discusses research related to defining cognitive…

The purpose of the study was to investigate the relationship between cognitive style and school learning among fifth-grade children. The findings indicated that cognitive styles are differentially related to school learning outcomes for both boys and girls after verbal and nonverbal intelligence have been taken into consideration. The results…

The document describes a sub-proposal which became a part of the Fox Valley Technical Institute's attempt to identify learning styles and their relationship to learning experiences in vocational-technical education. The sub-proposal consisted of the identification of a sub-set of learning styles and a determination of their relationship with the…

The relationship between intelligence, field dependence, leadership, and self-concept was studied in 88 sixth grade boys. Field independence, as measured by the Group Embedded Figures Test, was related to intelligence and self-concept. Analytic subjects exhibited more leadership than global subjects, while IQ did not differentiate subjects on any…

School districts should let parents, students, and teachers establish alternative schools to accommodate differences in learning styles. (Author)

Describes a study done to compare the cognitive preferences of four student populations: postgraduate students in chemistry, students from academic high schools, those in vocational schools training to become lab technicians, and students joining science clubs. Results of a 34 item cognitive preference test are summarized. (Author/MA)

The role of affective and associative meaningfulness in the learning styles of Chicanos and Anglos was examined. Chicano and Anglo undergraduates (N=64) were compared on learning of affectively and associatively assessed consonant-vowel-consonant trigrams. Chicanos differed significantly from Anglos in affective learning scale. (Author)

Investigated variations in conceptual complexity level of counselor and client on counselor attraction to the client. Counselor trainees rated attractiveness of clients following two counseling analogue tasks in which the client was depicted as exhibiting high or low conceptual level. More complex clients are more attractive across both levels.…