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Download full textBryk, Anthony S.; Nagaoka, Jenny K.; Newmann, Fred M. – 2000
In a study in 1996, the Consortium on Chicago School Research found that many classroom assignments in writing and mathematics made only modest academic demands on high school students. In this study, the nature of assignments in schools participating in the Annenberg Challenge reform effort in 1998-1999 was studied, to determine whether teachers…
Descriptors: Assignments, Difficulty Level, High School Students, High Schools
Foley, Elizabeth J.; Berch, Daniel B. – 1999
This study used the "double easy-to-hard" paradigm to examine the hypothesis that the class inclusion (CI) task should be equivalent in relational complexity to the transitive inference (TI) problem. Participating in the study were 64 girls and 50 boys, with a mean age of 8 years, 6 months. Stimuli for easy versions of the tasks were…
Descriptors: Children, Classification, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Klee, Hilary; Eysenck, Michael W. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1973
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Content Analysis
Peer reviewedSellman, Wayne S. – Journal of Experimental Education, 1972
Study was performed to determine if modifying a correspondence course through the simplification of materials, the inclusion of more illustrations, and the addition of audio supplementation could improve it as a training device to teach basic job information, especially to students possessing low verbal skills. (Author)
Descriptors: Correspondence Study, Difficulty Level, Instructional Materials, Job Training
Peer reviewedMacKay, C. K.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1972
One finding is that the children in this study did not reach a level in the development of these concepts expected by Piaget of 9-year-olds. (Authors/CB)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Conservation (Concept), Developmental Tasks, Difficulty Level
Peer reviewedHarris, Mary B.; Hassemer, Wendy G. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1972
Results suggest that modeling can indeed affect the complexity of children's sentences even in the absence of reinforcement or instructions of imitate. (Authors)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Bilingual Students, Difficulty Level, Elementary School Students
Peer reviewedFarley, Frank H.; Dowling, Phyllis M. – Studies in Art Education, 1972
These results might be taken into account by the white teacher of black students in the selection and sequencing of visual experiences and media. (Authors)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Arousal Patterns, Black Students, Comparative Analysis
Janz, Margaret L.; Smith, Edwin H. – Elementary English, 1972
Study was concerned with whether there is a practical difference between the reading ability of the eight, ninth, and tenth grade students and the readibility levels of their assigned textbooks in English, science and social studies. Findings show that most of the textbooks assigned were too difficult for effective instructional usage. (RB)
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Instructional Materials, Readability, Reading Ability
Peer reviewedAltmann, H. A.; Conklin, R. C. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1972
Descriptors: Attitudes, Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Emotional Response
Stoodt, Barbara D. – Elementary English, 1972
Purpose of the study was to explore the relationship between a subject's understanding of conjunctions and his reading comprehension; the difference in the difficulty of various conjunctions, and the relationship between understanding conjunctions and the demographic variables of socio-economic level, sex and intelligence. (RB)
Descriptors: Conjunctions, Critical Thinking, Difficulty Level, Grammar
Heuer, Helmut – Fremdsprachliche Unterricht, 1972
Discusses requirements for extrinsic and intrinsic individualization of text and exercise construction in foreign languages. (RS)
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, English (Second Language), Individualized Instruction, Language Instruction
Peer reviewedApter, Michael J. – Psychological Reports, 1971
Descriptors: Achievement, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Creativity
Peer reviewedSteinfeld, George J.; Greaves, Sally – Journal of General Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Error Patterns, Eye Fixations, Eye Movements
Peer reviewedLooft, William R. – Journal of General Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Attitudes, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Difficulty Level
Fernandez, Luis E.; Liebert, Robert M. – Psychol Rep, 1970
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Difficulty Level, Females, Learning Processes
