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Ross, Steven M.; And Others – 1988
This study investigated the effects of computer and print text density on learning, and the nature and effects of learner preference for different density levels in both print and computer presentation modes. Subjects were 48 undergraduate teacher education majors, who were assigned at random to six treatment groups in which a statistics lesson…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, College Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Higher Education
Mandinach, Ellen B.; Thorpe, Margaret E. – 1987
This document reports on the first year of the STACI (Systems Thinking and Curriculum Innovation) project, a two-year project which is examining the cognitive demands and consequences of using the STELLA (Structural Thinking Experimental Learning Laboratory with Animation) software to teach systems thinking, content knowledge, and problem solving.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computer Simulation, Computer Software, Curriculum Development
Page, Colin Flood; Kitching, John – 1981
Third in a series on teaching methods in higher education, this updated volume reviews and evaluates research on audiovisual aids and related instructional hardware. While the emphasis is on the effectiveness of technical aids in higher education as instructional tools, some information on technical and administrative problems is also provided.…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Computers, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Durbridge, Nicola – 1983
This discussion of the educational potential of audiotape and videotape cassettes in distance teaching considers each medium individually, with examples of how the Open University has tried to exploit them in its teaching, and comments on some major differences between the two media and their implication for education. Characteristics of…
Descriptors: Audiotape Cassettes, Correspondence Study, Distance Education, Foreign Countries
Schultz, Charles W. – 1988
This paper presents a global approach to the media comparison literature. Beginning with the pros and cons of media research, it discusses the results of both individual and meta-analysis research, compares the different methods researchers have used to determine media selection, and concludes with the most recent trends in media selection. It is…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Comparative Analysis, Instructional Design, Intermode Differences
Wedman, John F.; Smith, Patricia L. – 1989
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of instruction that is organized in two alternative formats--hierarchical (Gagne, 1962) and elaborated (Reigeluth, 1979)--on learner's recall and application of content-specific principles. Sixty-nine college juniors and seniors enrolled in an education media production course studied one of two…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Cognitive Style, College Students, Cost Effectiveness
Armour-Thomas, Eleanor; And Others – 1987
The effects of different types of feedback in computer assisted instruction (CAI) on relational concept learning by young children were compared in this study. Subjects were 89 kindergarten students whose primary language was English, and whose performance on the Boehm Test of Basic Concepts was within the average range chosen from classes in a…
Descriptors: Analysis of Covariance, Computer Assisted Instruction, Concept Teaching, Feedback
McBride, Susan D.; Dwyer, Francis M. – 1982
Content organization and its effects on prose learning were the focus of this study. Organizational chunking during the encoding or reading interval with an instructional booklet and batched postquestions during the retrieval period (including all events between initial learning and the retention test) were used with 112 university students to…
Descriptors: College Students, Efficiency, Higher Education, Instructional Design
Campbell, Donald L.; And Others – 1985
The performance of two groups of 24 third-grade students practicing division problems was used to assess the effect of microcomputer drill programs on learning. An experimental group that used computer drill programs from the Milliken Math Sequences package was compared with a similar group that learned division using the traditional print drill…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Courseware, Division, Drills (Practice)
Fradkin, Bernard M. – Educational Technology Systems, 1974
A discussion of an investigation of the effectiveness of viewing three types of visual presentations over different intervals of time. (Author)
Descriptors: Intermode Differences, Learning Modalities, Learning Processes, Multimedia Instruction
Smith, Jean McKernan; vonFeldt, James R. – 1977
The computer assisted instruction (CAI) program "CAI Webdi," an instructional package for deaf education which utilizes CAI with audiovisual aids, was used in a comparative study of computer assisted and videotaped instruction. Based upon a formative evaluation of CAI Webdi with post secondary deaf students, an instructional television…
Descriptors: Autoinstructional Aids, Computer Assisted Instruction, Deafness, Diacritical Marking
Bates, Tony; Kern, Larry – 1978
This study examines alternatives to direct transmission of television and radio programs for courses with low student enrollment at the Open University. Examined are cut-off points in terms of student numbers at which alternative means of distributing audio or audio-visual materials become more economical than direct television or radio…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Radio, Educational Television
Propp, George; And Others – 1980
The strong potential of videodisc technology for improving the education of the hearing impaired is described in this report on the Media Development Project for the Hearing Impaired (MDPHI) at the University of Nebraska. The topics covered include: (1) the history of the use of technology in deaf education; (2) the history of videodiscs and their…
Descriptors: Deafness, Educational Equipment, Evaluation, Hearing Impairments
Everett, Richard J. – 1978
This study compares the effects of black and white and color mediated content on pupil's affective responses at different levels of maturation for 148 students in grades four, seven and 12 of the Calgary Public School System. Students in each treatment group were shown a set of 14 identical slides in either black and white or color and told to…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attitudes, Color, Educational Research
Link, Albert D. – 1973
A research study investigated the validity of directly interfacing an uninitiated user with a complex, computerized batch processing system via a conversational, interactive language. A control group conducted mediated searches of the Educational Resources Information Center's (ERIC) files by consulting with an information specialist. Members of…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Programs, Computer Science Education, Educational Research
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