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Meeker, Michael W. – 1983
Adapting strategies of invention from the new process-oriented rhetoric, the literature teacher can help students understand what they read through prereading exercises. Presenting students with an abstract model of a text's metaphoric structure, the teacher can spark students' immediate and imaginative response to the model, involving them…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Diagrams, Discovery Processes, English Instruction
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Taub, Harvey A.; Kline, Gary E. – Educational Gerontology, 1976
Three experiments were performed using unrelated digit materials and prose passages to evaluate whether an auditory or visual presentation of material would be best for an aged population. Data suggests that the choice of modality depends on the particular presentation condition rather than on the type of stimulus materials. (Author)
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Aural Learning, Educational Gerontology, Gerontology
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Leveridge, Leo L. – Journal of Biocommunication, 1974
An evaluation of the use of multimedia education channels for continuing physician education. (CH)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Allied Health Occupations Education, Audiovisual Communications, Audiovisual Instruction
Blanchard, Harry E. – 1986
A series of studies investigated the manner in which information is utilized during fixations in continuous reading. Utilization refers to visual information being processed to further the comprehension of the text being read, in contrast to registration, which refers to visual information simply being available to the brain. The studies…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Eye Fixations, Higher Education, Memory
Sieroff, Eric; Posner, Michael I. – 1986
Work with patients with attentional deficits produced by posterior cerebral lesions has shown that such patients can identify words correctly even when they fail to report letters in nonwords contralateral to the lesion. Because of this, it has been assumed in cognitive neuropsychology that lesions do not produce new phenomena but instead provide…
Descriptors: Adults, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis
Woodley, John W. – 1984
To gain a better understanding of visual perception in reading, a study tested the predictive validity of the Goodman Model of Reading by measuring the extent to which 82 college students (graduate and undergraduate) were able to perceive and accurately report 10 lines of print. It also attempted to integrate research conducted over the past 100…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Language Acquisition, Reader Text Relationship
Stice, Carole F.; Alvarez, Marino C. – 1986
A study introduced elementary school students to concept maps--visual representations of a learner's thought processes. Nine teachers with two classes each (kindergarten through fourth grades represented) were taught the terminology of the concept map and were asked to initiate a number of activities in generating concept maps with their children.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Mapping, Concept Mapping, Concept Teaching, Educational Games
Burton, Linda – 1985
The effects of musical accompaniment on two different visual information processing activities were examined in individuals of differing selected personality types. The Myers Briggs Type Indicator Form G was administered to classes of University students. From the results, four subgroups, the sensing-thinking, sensing-feeling, intuitive-feeling,…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Individual Differences
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Salomon, Gavriel – 1983
This discussion and critique of television programs used in two courses--D102 (vandalism) and M101 (mathematics)--at the British Open University suggests that the television presentation of real life-like raw material can facilitate the comprehension of abstract material inasmuch as it provides concrete illustrations, and provides an opportunity…
Descriptors: Educational Television, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Open Universities
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
Zeevi, Yehoshua Y.; And Others – 1987
The examination of saccadic eye movements--rapid shifts in gaze from one visual area of interest to another--is useful in studying pilot's visual learning in flight simulator training. Saccadic eye movements are the basic oculomotor response associated with the acquisition of visual information and provide an objective measure of higher perceptual…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Eye Fixations, Eye Movements, Flight Training
Messaris, Paul – 1987
The term "visual literacy" generally refers to the interpretation of the formal structure of film or television and carries with it the notion that the interpreter has knowledge of the use of camera angles, lighting, flashbacks, and so forth. However, many visual conventions encountered in movies or television may be interpreted even by…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Editing, Film Study, Imagery
Nurss, Joanne R. – 1987
During a 5-month period, an attempt was made to describe the literacy concepts of 12 children 5 years of age who attended a prekindergarten program rich in oral language experiences. Assessments were made in the classroom of the children's concepts of print, phoneme awareness, logo recognition, reading, and writing, through use of (1) the…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Basic Skills, Classroom Research, Concept Formation
Hortin, John A. – 1980
This report describes the uses of visual literacy programs in the schools and outlines four categories for incorporating training in visual thinking into school curriculums as part of the back to basics movement in education. The report recommends that curriculum writers include materials pertaining to: (1) reading visual language and…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Material Development
Hortin, John A. – 1980
It is proposed that visual literacy be defined as the ability to understand (read) and use (write) images and to think and learn in terms of images. This definition includes three basic principles: (1) visuals are a language and thus analogous to verbal language; (2) a visually literate person should be able to understand (read) images and use…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Educational Research, Ideography, Imagery
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