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WITTROCK, M. C. – 1965
FOUR EXPERIMENTS WERE CONDUCTED TO STUDY EFFECTS OF VERBAL CUES ON LEARNING RETENTION AND TRANSFER. CUES INCLUDED RULES AND ANSWERS PROVIDED BEFORE RESPONDING AND RULES AND ANSWERS PROVIDED AS FEEDBACK. THE FIRST EXPERIMENT INVOLVED SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS WHO USED RULE AND ANSWER PROMPTS. THE SECOND EXPERIMENT CONSIDERED PROMPTS AND FEEDBACK.…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Classroom Techniques, Feedback, Learning Processes
BILODEAU, EDWARD A.; BLICK, KENNETH A. – 1965
THIS STUDY WAS MADE TO COMPARE THE EFFECTS OF STIMULATION AND NONSTIMULATION ON RECALL OF WORDS FOLLOWING TIME-DELAY PERIODS. THE SUBJECTS (670 AIRMEN) WERE TRAINED WITH AN EXAMPLE WORD LIST AND TWO WORD LISTS CONTAINING FIVE OF THE SECONDARY WORDS ASSOCIATED WITH RUSSELL-JENKINS STIMULUS WORDS. AFTER TIME DELAYS OF 2 MINUTES, 20 MINUTES, 2 DAYS,…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Learning, Learning Experience, Learning Processes
FERSTER, C.B. – 1960
STUDENTS WERE PRESENTED 61 LESSONS BY MEANS OF SEMIAUTOMATIC TEACHING MACHINES. LESSONS WERE ARRANGED SO THAT EACH PARTICIPATING STUDENT STUDIED PART OF THE COURSE MATERIAL WITH A SINGLE REPETITION AND PART WITHOUT REPETITION. DATA WERE OBTAINED FROM TWO TESTS SHOWING TEACHING-MACHINE RESULTS AND ONE FINAL COURSE EXAMINATION. NO SIGNIFICANT…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Instructional Materials, Learning Processes, Medical Students
SMITH, PHILIP D. – 1963
THIS RESEARCH EFFORT WAS DESIGNED TO INVESTIGATE THE EFFECTS OF (1) TWO DEGREES OF IMMEDIACY OF KNOWLEDGE OF RESULTS AND (2) THREE METHODS OF PRESENTATION ON THE RETENTION OF KNOWLEDGE TRANSMITTED BY A FILMSTRIP. A FILMSTRIP WAS PRESENTED FRAME-BY-FRAME, IN SEQUENCE, AND IN TOTAL WITH TEST ITEMS ON THE FILMSTRIP ADMINISTERED ACCORDINGLY. PUBLIC…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Instruction, Elementary School Students, Feedback, Films
MOORE, J. WILLIAM; SMITH, WENDELL I. – 1965
TECHNIQUES OF PROGRAMING WHICH ALLOW FOR A MORE SYSTEMATIC METHOD OF RELATING THE DIFFICULTY OF A FRAME TO THE ABILITY OF THE LEARNER WERE DEVELOPED AND EVALUATED IN FOUR SEPARATE STUDIES. EXPERIMENT ONE TESTED THE HYPOTHESIS THAT ACHIEVEMENT IS A FUNCTION OF THE INTERACTION OF THE ABILITY OF THE LEARNER AND THE AMOUNT OF INFORMATION CONTAINED IN…
Descriptors: Achievement, Concept Teaching, Grade 11, Grade 8
Riege, Walter H.; Williams, M. Virtrue – 1980
The impact of age effects on nonverbal memory for auditory or tactual patterns has been largely neglected in research studies. The effects of age on nonverbal memory were investigated by comparing subjects (N=120), divided by age decades into six groups (N=20), through tests using visual, auditory, and tactual items which were resistant to verbal…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Learning Modalities
Nesbit, Larry L. – 1978
Research on the use of eye movement indices (such as number of fixations, the average fixation duration, and saccadic movements) as a measure of cognitive processing is reviewed in this paper. Information is provided on the physiology of the eye, computer applications to eye movement study, the influence of stimulus materials and intelligence on…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computer Science, Educational Research, Eye Fixations
Download full textDeutsch, Toni; Tobias, Sigmund – 1980
Two aptitude treatment interaction questions were investigated: (1) relationship between prior learning and instructional method, and (2) interaction between anxiety and the opportunity to rewind instructional tapes. Students from five educational psychology classes (112 undergraduate) were shown video modules under either of two conditions: (1)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Anxiety, Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Group Instruction
Huebner, Thomas G. – 1976
Linguists of various theoretical backgrounds have likened second language (L2) acquisition to pidginization (Ferguson 1971, Richards 1971, Bickerton 1975a). This paper examines these two processes and suggests areas where a study of the process of second language acquisition in a natural setting might contribute insights to a general theory of…
Descriptors: Creoles, Language Patterns, Language Research, Language Skills
Gillan, Robert E. – 1978
The issue of specialized teacher education and certification for the middle school grades is discussed. The general background on teacher preparation for the middle school grades is covered, and findings of studies concerning teacher education and certification for the middle school are presented. The history of the growth of the middle school is…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cognitive Processes, Learning Processes, Middle Schools
Hillman, Stephen B. – 1979
The study examined the effects of questions on learning among 90 intermediate level educable mentally retarded children. Four types of learning were identified as relevant remembering, incidental remembering, relevant inferring, and incidental inferring. Results indicated that question position was an important variable in influencing the learning…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Incidental Learning, Intermediate Grades
Popp, Jerome A. – 1979
A framework is suggested for the analysis of teaching, whether for purpose of research, evaluation, or moral inquiry, that is an alternative to the present form of analysis. This form seeks in the analysis of teaching those teacher characteristics that can be established as causally reactive in producing student achievement. Differing…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Philosophy, Educational Research, Learning Processes
MARSH, LUTHER A.; PIERCE-JONES, JOHN – 1968
TO INVESTIGATE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PROGRAMMED INSTRUCTION AS AN ADJUNCT TO MORE TRADITIONAL METHODS OF COLLEGE TEACHING, THE EXPERIMENTORS IN THIS STUDY DEVISED METHODS OF TESTING RELATIVE EFFECTIVENESS OF TEACHING MACHINES, WORKBOOKS, SELF-PACED AND IMPOSED SCHEDULES, TRADITIONAL TEXTBOOKS AND SELECTED READINGS. THEY ALSO EXAMINED THE EFFECT OF…
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Higher Education, Learning, Learning Processes
NOREEN, DAVID SHELDON – 1966
THIS STUDY EXAMINED GROWTH MOTIVATION AS A DEVELOPING CONCEPT AND AS A THEORETICAL CONSTRUCT, AND THE IMPLICATIONS OF THIS THEORY FOR ADULT EDUCATION THEORY AND PRACTICE. SPECIAL ATTENTION WAS GIVEN TO THE THEORETICAL CONSTRUCTS OF ABRAHAM MASLOW, TO THE NATURE OF GROWTH MOTIVATION CONCEPTS IN GENERAL, AND TO FORMS OF SELF UNDERSTANDING AND…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Behavior Change, Educational Theories
Tye, Norwood Burl – 1966
Process guidelines for adult education program development were identified by means of a detailed search of selected literature. Definition of the program development process includes (1) selection of educational objectives, (2) selecting and organizing learning experiences to achieve objectives, and (3) evaluation. Publications since 1950 were…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Objectives
