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Canelos, James; And Others – 1988
This study examined the effects of two cognitive styles--field dependents-independents and reflectivity-impulsivity--on learning from microcomputer-based instruction. In the first of three experimental designs, a programmed instruction text on the human heart was used which contained both visual and verbal information in an instructional display,…
Descriptors: Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Cognitive Style, Computer Assisted Instruction, Feedback
McIntyre, William A. – 1983
Intended to lend organization to the educational media research in visual perception and learning with line drawings, this paper reviews studies that cut across several specialized fields of education and psychology. The studies reviewed are arranged into the following categories: (1) learning from visuals, (2) abstract versus realism theories,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Language Research, Learning Modalities, Learning Processes
Ballinger, Robert L.; Ballinger, Virginia S. – 1989
The role of video as a foreign language textbook of the future is discussed. The flexibility of the video format accommodates a wide variety of learning style characteristics. It is maintained that the ideal textbook: (1) empowers the teacher by matching the teacher's objectives, by being under the teacher's control, by condensing time, by…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Curriculum Enrichment, Educational Objectives, Instructional Materials
Reese, Stephen D.; Davie, William R. – 1987
Noting that the use of captions in television newscasts has grown from simple labeling of newsmakers to more complicated titling of graphics and enumerating important points in a script, a study examined the extent to which captioning assisted viewers in learning from different types of television news stories. Subjects, 100 undergraduate…
Descriptors: Broadcast Television, Captions, Comprehension, Higher Education
District of Columbia Public Schools, Washington, DC. Div. of Quality Assurance. – 1981
This report is about the education plan of the District of Columbia Public Schools for the 1981-82 school year. The first chapter describes the philosophy, goals, and instructional and achievement priorities of the board of education and superintendent; outlines categories of student competencies; summarizes 1980-81 performance data on the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Educational Objectives, Educational Planning
Angert, Jay F.; Clark, Francis E. – 1982
A meta-analysis procedure was used to review research on pictorial effectiveness which focused on the use of static iconic visuals in instructional materials. The purpose of this exploratory study was to provide a means for forming future hypotheses based upon a quantitative aggregation of past research. The study was concerned with differential…
Descriptors: Illustrations, Information Retrieval, Instructional Materials, Literature Reviews
De Melo, Hermes Teixeria; Dwyer, Francis M. – 1982
This study investigated the effects of (1) verbal instruction alone vs. verbal instruction complemented by simple line drawings; (2) visual testing vs. nonvisual testing; (3) verbal cueing vs. free recall on achievement; and (4) order of testing on subsequent achievement. Interactions among type of instruction, type of testing, and order of…
Descriptors: College Students, Educational Research, Higher Education, Illustrations
Lamberski, Richard J. – 1982
The effect of verbal and visual (color or black/white) coding strategies in self-paced instruction and test materials in facilitating student retention on different cognitive tasks was studied. The 176 college student subjects received instruction and testing using varied combinations of color or black/white materials. Instructional materials were…
Descriptors: Autoinstructional Aids, College Students, Color, Higher Education
Covey, Roxie E.; Carroll, James L. – 1985
The effect of pictures on reading comprehension under different levels of text organization was investigated. Sixth graders (N=132) read three science passages, presented with or without pictures representing text content. Picture condition was crossed with three levels of text organization. Multiple-choice test scores were analyzed using reading…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Elementary School Science, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades
Fouse, Anna Beth Forrester – 1976
A random sample and a sample of retarded readers were selected from fourth- and sixth-grade students in the Grand Prairie Independent School District. All students were tested in the areas of auditory perception, visual perception, and phonics abilities. The tests administered were: two subtests from the Woodcock Reading Mastery Test; four…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Auditory Perception, Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Education
Geoffrion, Leo D.; Bergeron, R. Daniel – 1977
The Computer Animated Reading Instruction System (CARIS) was developed to introduce reading to children with varied sensory, cognitive, and physical handicaps. CARIS employs an exploratory learning approach which encourages children to experiment with the reading and writing of words and sentences. Brief computer-animated cartoons provide the…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Computer Assisted Instruction, Elementary Secondary Education, Handicapped Students
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Plummer, Gordon S. – 1977
This paper relates visual literacy to the historical development of art education in the United States, emphasizing the work of Walter Smith, an art educator, during the later nineteenth century. The visual mode of learning, especially drawing, in public schools has been justified as a means to furthering industrialization and as an end in itself,…
Descriptors: Art Appreciation, Art Education, Communication Skills, Educational Attitudes
Hughley, Carey – 1981
This study sought to determine the difference between learning with the aid of a motion picture presenting the visual field of the performer and the performer in action and learning with the aid of a motion picture presenting only the performer in action. Two motion pictures of a student tracking on a pursuit rotary unit constituted the…
Descriptors: Athletes, Athletics, Audiovisual Instruction, College Students
Bartels, Laura Grand; Feinbloom, Jessica – 1981
Ten concrete nouns represented in either a pictorial or a linguistic mode and accompanied by ten nonsense syllables were shown to 77 college students in a study of how pictorial stimuli varied in recall and recognition tasks. The group receiving pictorial stimuli recalled and recognized significantly more nonsense syllables than did the group…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Instructional Materials, Learning Modalities
Meyer, John K. – 1978
Basic features of a method of connection-making training, developed by Gordon and Poze, can provide a compact method of connection-making in varying mental age levels. Based on the premise that simple connection-making is innate and available to stimulation in children of the primary and kindergarten grade ages, this method was used on a target…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Compensatory Education, Concept Formation, Educationally Disadvantaged
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