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Bryant, Lynda Carol – 1976
To observe the relationship of auditory and visual receptive skills to achievement in reading, 80 eight-year-old children were given a diagnostic test battery which examined three receptive skills--attention to stimuli, discrimination, and memory--within three sensory modalities--auditory, visual, and auditory-visual. The control group consisted…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Auditory Perception, Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Education
Barry, Sharon; And Others – 1979
This student guide for a program exploring both the harmful and helpful aspects of television viewing for children is designed around a magazine format to allow maximum flexibility to different groups using the materials. The guide is divided into seven sections: (1) an overview of the theme and contents; (2) a summary of the major learnings of…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Rearing, Childhood Interests, Educational Television
Hinrichsen, Keith A. – 1975
This study compares traditional lecture (TL) and personalized system of instruction (PSI) teaching methods for an introductory criminal evidence class at Cerritos College (California) during the 1974-75 academic year. The subjects were 189 lower division students, the vast majority of whom were declared law enforcement majors. Since both sections…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Enrollment Rate, Individualized Instruction, Instructional Innovation
Corsale, Kathleen – 1974
The purpose of this study was to determine whether children as young as second-graders could encode categorically within an abstract evaluative dimension. The study uses mode of stimulus presentation (auditory or visual) as an independent variable. The subjects were 40 white middle class children from grades 2, 4, and 6, who were randomly assigned…
Descriptors: Aural Learning, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education
Maher, Phillip Ray – 1975
The purposes of this study were to analyze the effects of instructional objectives as advance organizers prior to a reading assignment, determine if an advance organizer was more effectively presented with two learning modalities than with one; predict whether vocabulary or readability variables influenced comprehension; and determine whether…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Behavioral Objectives, Critical Reading, Doctoral Dissertations
Blasi, Joyce F. – 1976
Discussed are characteristics of criterion referenced reading tests for use with learning disabled (LD) children, and analyzed are the Basic Educational Skills Inventory (BESI), the Prescriptive Reading Inventory (PRI), and the Cooper-McGuire Diagnostic Work-Analysis Test (CooperMcGuire). Criterion referenced tests are defined; and problems in…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Criterion Referenced Tests, Diagnostic Tests, Elementary Education
Martens, Kay – 1975
The introductory portion of this document reviews the definitions of cognitive style and presents the models of cognitive style developed by James McKenney, Samuel Messick, and Joseph Hill. It also discusses the application of these models to education. The annotated bibliography is designed as a review of selected materials that provide an…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes
Parker, Harley W. – 1966
Under the impact of electronic immediacy the world is being reorganized in sensory terms toward the primacy of the audile-tactile. In the educational system, emphasis remains on traditional methods of logical (visual) and sequential learning. The effect on literature is an increased interest in the spoken, as opposed to the written word. Through…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Art, Auditory Perception, Conference Reports
Rosner, Jerome – 1973
This curriculum is designed primarily for use in individualized classrooms where the teacher is working with an assistant, but it has also been proven effective in traditional classrooms and in remedial situations. Program 1 focuses on the basic abilities children use to analyze and organize graphic and other spatial patterns--skills directly…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Behavioral Objectives, Cognitive Processes, Curriculum Guides
Rosner, Jerome – 1973
This curriculum is designed primarily for use in individualized classrooms where the teacher is working with an assistant, but it has also been proven effective in traditional classrooms and in remedial situations. Program 3 focuses on a variety of gross-and fine-motor functions--basic abilities that affect the way the child physically interacts…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Behavioral Objectives, Cognitive Processes, Curriculum Guides
Bursuk, Laura – 1971
The comparative effectiveness of correlated listening-reading and reading-only comprehension lessons was studied using high school retarded readers with varying sensory modality learning preferences. Over a one-semester period, comparable lessons were taught to two groups matched for IQ, age, reading grade level, and freedom from sensory defects.…
Descriptors: Aural Learning, Learning Modalities, Learning Processes, Multisensory Learning
Ackerman, Paul Roland – 1971
The effectiveness of a diagnostic teaching program in teaching reading to emotionally disturbed and socially maladjusted boys in two schools in New York City was investigated. The diagnostic teaching program specified behavioral objectives which fit the individual student, prescribed instructional styles for the teacher, and outlined techniques of…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Teaching, Emotional Disturbances, Handicapped Children, Learning Modalities
Ringler, Lenore H.; And Others – 1971
A vocabulary list of 50 words based on children's spoken language was divided into six groups. For each group specific materials incorporating different modality presentations (pictures, tapes, transparencies, and word cards providing tactile emphasis) were developed. The modality preferences of 128 first graders were identified by The New York…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Criterion Referenced Tests, Grade 1, Kinesthetic Perception
Dunn, Thomas G.; Hansen, Duncan – 1972
Visuals, like pictures, charts, diagrams, graphics, and the like, are widely used in education. However, there is little justification in the research literature for their use. The overall purpose of this exploratory study was to find out more about the processing of visuals or graphics in an educational task. Specifically, it was thought that…
Descriptors: Charts, Computer Assisted Instruction, Critical Path Method, Diagrams
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Williams, Fern; Oakland, Thomas – Journal of Special Education, 1978
The study evaluated the effectiveness of three instructional methods in promoting speech sound discrimination and reading achievement over a 3-year period. (Author)
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception, Black Youth, Cultural Differences
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