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Correa, Carolina T. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
In 2005, the U. S. Department of Education estimated that 44% of the 3 million students enrolled in non-traditional, that is, non-academic, adult education programs were English language learners. Yet, because of the overt focus that tends to be placed on oral communication, little has been done to document how these learners might view themselves…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Case Studies, Nontraditional Education
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Theeuwes, Jan; Van der Burg, Erik – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2007
Even though it is undisputed that prior information regarding the location of a target affects visual selection, the issue of whether information regarding nonspatial features, such as color and shape, has similar effects has been a matter of debate since the early 1980s. In the study described in this article, measures derived from signal…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Visual Perception, Visual Discrimination, Perceptual Development
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Jarvinen-Pasley, Anna; Wallace, Gregory L.; Ramus, Franck; Happe, Francesca; Heaton, Pamela – Developmental Science, 2008
Theories of autism have proposed that a bias towards low-level perceptual information, or a featural/surface-biased information-processing style, may compromise higher-level language processing in such individuals. Two experiments, utilizing linguistic stimuli with competing low-level/perceptual and high-level/semantic information, tested…
Descriptors: Cues, Semantics, Autism, Language Processing
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Taylor, Kathleen; Lamoreaux, Annalee – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2008
Adult educators are committed to learning that encourages adults to see themselves and the world around them in more complex ways. They have therefore focused their practice on teaching with development in mind (Taylor, 2000; Lamoreaux, 2005). Recently, however, a colleague (Johnson, 2003) pointed the authors to a body of research that examines…
Descriptors: Brain, Adult Educators, Perceptual Development, Anatomy
Shore, Rebecca A. – School Administrator, 2009
Within America's school systems, sometime between kindergarten and secondary education, a wide variation appears among the achievement levels of different children. The learning gap between high-achieving high schoolers and dropouts is certainly no secret to educators. Huge sums of federal funds and foundation support have been injected into K-12…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap, Dropouts, High Achievement
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Booth, Amy E.; Waxman, Sandra R. – Developmental Science, 2008
In this paper we consider the perceptual and conceptual contributions that shape early word learning, using research on the "shape bias" as a case in point. In our view, conceptual, linguistic, social-pragmatic, and perceptual sources of information influence one another powerfully and continuously in the service of word learning throughout…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Concept Formation, Learning Theories, Bias
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Letourneau, Susan M.; Mitchell, Teresa V. – Brain and Cognition, 2008
Holistic processing of faces is characterized by encoding of the face as a single stimulus. This study employed a composite face task to examine whether holistic processing varies when attention is restricted to the top as compared to the bottom half of the face, and whether evidence of holistic processing would be observed in event-related…
Descriptors: Visual Stimuli, Attention, Cognitive Processes, Response Style (Tests)
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Sarama, Julie; Clements, Douglas H. – American Journal of Play, 2009
The authors explore how children's play can support the development of the foundations of mathematics learning and how adults can support children's representation of--and thus the "mathematization" of--their play. The authors review research about the amount and nature of mathematics found in the free play of children. They briefly…
Descriptors: Play, Cognitive Development, Child Development, Mathematics Skills
Orfield, Antonia – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2007
Dr. Orfield's highly readable guide on vision development presents ground-breaking solutions to common learning problems and is supported by substantial data. This holistic common sense--that most people do not know--is not just about vision but also how vision is interrelated with learning. It teaches how to care for a child's vision as well as…
Descriptors: Vision, Visual Impairments, Learning Problems, Perceptual Development
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McGuigan, Nicola – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2007
Children aged 2 and 3 years were exposed to a novel paradigm designed to train visual perception skills. The results indicate that children of this age could be trained to perform both percept deprivation and percept diagnosis tasks. Results are discussed with reference to engagement, a precursor to an adult-like understanding of perception.
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Young Children, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Perceptual Development
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Chiviacowsky, Suzete; Wulf, Gabriele; Laroque de Medeiros, Franklin; Kaefer, Angelica; Tani, Go – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2008
The purpose of the present study was to examine whether the learning benefits of self-controlled knowledge of results (KR) would generalize to children. Specifically, the authors chose 10-year-old children representative of late childhood. The authors used a task that required the children to toss beanbags at a target. One group received KR…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Scores, Perceptual Development, Children
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Dewrang, Petra; Sandberg, Annika Dahlgren – Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2010
Development and behavior during the first 2 years of life was assessed retrospectively by the parents to 23 adolescents and young adults with Asperger syndrome and 13 typically developing adolescents and young adults. The groups were matched on chronological age and the participants were within the normal range of intelligence. The questionnaire,…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Asperger Syndrome, Questionnaires, Young Adults
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Dilks, Daniel D.; Hoffman, James E.; Landau, Barbara – Developmental Science, 2008
Evidence suggests that visual processing is divided into the dorsal ("how") and ventral ("what") streams. We examined the normal development of these streams and their breakdown under neurological deficit by comparing performance of normally developing children and Williams syndrome individuals on two tasks: a visually guided action ("how") task,…
Descriptors: Vision, Cognitive Processes, Child Development, Developmental Stages
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Ricketts, Todd Andrew; Galster, Jason – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2008
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine children's head orientation relative to the arrival angle of competing signals and the sound source of interest in actual school settings. These data were gathered to provide information relative to the potential for directional benefit. Method: Forty children, 4-17 years of age, with and without…
Descriptors: Hearing (Physiology), Hearing Impairments, Classroom Environment, Auditory Tests
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Enghauser, Rebecca – Journal of Dance Education, 2007
As a dance teacher I am interested in finding ways to improve the quality and effectiveness of the dancers' learning process. My investigations toward this end have primarily focused on uncovering essential somatic characteristics as they relate to dance teaching and learning. The essential somatic concept that the senses and sensitization of the…
Descriptors: Dance Education, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Dance
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