Noting the National Reading Panel's suggestions on assessing and improving children's phonemic awareness, this paper discusses how reading can be improved through think-alouds and visualizations. Comprehension strategies that teachers can model during think-alouds are: activating prior knowledge; building vocabulary; determining importance;…

A discussion of the papers, "Representation, Vision and Visualization: Cognitive Functions in Mathematical Thinking. Basic Issues for Learning" (Raymond Duval) and "On the Development of Human Representational Competence from an Evolutionary Point of View: From Episodic to Virtual Culture" (James J. Kaput), is presented. Kaput…

The dependence of immediate, short-term and long-term reproductive memory on operative understanding was studied in elementary school students. Results are interpreted in terms of Piaget's theory. (ST)

Argues that the ability to formulate mental images is an important but often neglected aspect of the reading process. (RB)

Paper examines the re-emergence of imagery as a topic commanding attention in psychology. (Author)

Discusses the utilization of films and transparenceies in teachn g poetry and recommends a multisensory approach to such instruction. (SW)

Translates Oskar Pfister's 1930 article proposing that persons faced with extreme danger exclude reality from their perceptions and lapse into pleasurable fantasies that constitute a form of psychic protection against the threat of death. Notes that depersonalization takes place and prevents the conscious experience of fear. (Author/RC)

Mental imagery, a factor in learning and fantasy, can be used in multimodal career education programs to aid students in speculation about their futures. This multimodal approach addresses areas of human functioning such as behavior, affect, sensation, imagery, cognition, interpersonal relations, and physiology. (Author/CC)

To hold student interest, distance learning instructors need to think and present ideas visually. Presentations should be limited to three or four key points that would benefit from visual depiction. Visual aids used for presentation may be image-related, concept-related, or arbitrary graphics. Sophistication of visual aid is not as important as…

Discusses the use of graphics in instruction and concludes that cosmetic and motivational graphics can be more realistic and detailed for affective goals, while schematic graphics may be best for the more cognitive functions of focusing attention and presenting actual content. Domains of learning, mental models, and visualization are examined.…

Two experiments examined the influence of a delay between learning and reproducing locations on 7-, 9- and 11-year-old children's memory for location. Findings indicated that bias toward category centers when replacing objects in their original locations increased following an intervening delay, as predicted by the Category-Adjustment model, with…

Illustrates the contrasting thinking processes of two beginning calculus students' geometric and analytic schemes for the derivative function. Suggests that teachers can enhance students' understanding by continuing to demonstrate how different representations of the same mathematical concept provide additional information. (KHR)

The visual imagery ability of 40 adolescents with mental retardation due to organic reasons (n=20) and sociocultural reasons (n=20) was compared with the ability of 36 nondisabled children. Results found that adolescents with mental retardation had poorer visual imagery than nondisabled children with the same mental age. (CR)

Reports research designed to explore the possibility that conceptually different forms of common-fraction understanding can be identified. Such forms may be associated with differences in fraction problem solving-performance. Contains 50 references. (DDR)

Presents problems designed to focus student attention on the visual representations that accompany the verbal statements of problem situations involving motion over a period of time. Shows that as a result of engaging in these activities, students gain a better understanding of a given problem situation before they apply procedures to answer…