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Carey, James O.; Hannafin, Michael J. – 1981
This study examines the relationships among oral, visual, and a combination of oral and visual presentational stimuli; concrete or abstract types of content; and high or low verbal learner ability. The 248 third grade students either heard a short story, watched pictures showing the same short story, or heard and watched a combination of the oral…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Assessment, Educational Media, Grade 3
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Carey, James O.; Hannafin, Michael J. – 1981
This study examined the relationships among presentational stimuli (oral, visual, oral plus visual), types of content (concrete, abstract), and learner ability (high verbal, low verbal). Third grade students either heard a short story, watched pictures showing the same short story, or heard and watched a combination of the oral and picture…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Academic Ability, Audiovisual Aids, Aural Learning
Corno, Lyn; Mandinach, Ellen B. – 1981
This study applied a model of student academic motivation to an existing set of classroom data from 323 third graders in 17 classes from 2 Stanford, California elementary school districts. The model proposed that common forms of student-motivated behavior, such as task engagement, are systematically related to students' cognitive structures and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Research, Grade 3, Group Dynamics
Hopkins, Carol J. – 1977
This research is part of a longitudinal study designed to compare measures of first-grade oral language with reading achievement at various grade levels. The original study constructed ten measures for oral language from interviews with 100 first graders and compared those measures to the reading achievement of the subjects at the end of first…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Grade 1, Grade 3, Longitudinal Studies
Nelson-Le Gall, Sharon; And Others – 1989
Two experiments investigated the role of children's assessments of their performance on their decisions to seek help and their preferences for different types of assistance. Blocked into low and high verbal skill groups, participants in study 1 were 84 middle-class third- and fifth-grade elementary school students. Subjects performed a multi-trial…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Grade 3
Enright, Robert D.; And Others – 1980
A paired-comparisons measure of distributive justice development, the Distributive Justice Scale (DJS), was developed and validated in four studies. Pictures were drawn to represent the different stages of distributive justice for a given dilemma and the DJS was scored by selecting the child's preferred stage via the picture comparisons for each…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attitude Measures, Correlation, Cultural Differences