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Download full textWelch, Alicia J.; Watt, James H., Jr. – 1980
A study was conducted to examine the influence of visual complexity in a televised presentation on attention and learning among young children. (Visual complexity is defined as a composite variable that assesses the number of perceptual elements in a visual display and accounts for the extent of movement or activity in a scene.) Forty-eight…
Descriptors: Attention Span, Childrens Television, Communication Research, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Peer reviewedKerpelman, Larry C. – Child Development, 1967
Four-, five-, and six-year-old children were used as subjects in this investigation. There were 192 experimental and 96 control children used, divided equally between the three age groups. The experimental children received a 1-minute pretest exposure procedure in which 1/4 of the children observed 4 two-dimensional stimuli (irregular pentagons),…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Discrimination Learning, Grade 1, Kindergarten Children
Alter, Henry C. – 1968
The purpose of this essay is to explain and demonstrate to educators the special strength of public television as an ally of education in general, with a view to obtaining greater understanding which will ultimately lead to more effective cooperation between public television and the educational world. Part one traces the evolution of educational…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Civil Rights, Cultural Education, Educational Television
Corsale, Kathleen – 1974
The purpose of this study was to determine whether children as young as second-graders could encode categorically within an abstract evaluative dimension. The study uses mode of stimulus presentation (auditory or visual) as an independent variable. The subjects were 40 white middle class children from grades 2, 4, and 6, who were randomly assigned…
Descriptors: Aural Learning, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education
Farnham-Diggory, Sylvia – 1974
Visual and auditory stimuli were presented to children to measure symbol processing abilities. Slides which required matching the similarities in two objects in a group of three were presented. At times the matching criteria varied between function, color, and form. Reaction time was quicker when matching by color than by function, which was…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Children, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development
Rosner, Jerome – 1973
This curriculum is designed primarily for use in individualized classrooms where the teacher is working with an assistant, but it has also been proven effective in traditional classrooms and in remedial situations. Program 1 focuses on the basic abilities children use to analyze and organize graphic and other spatial patterns--skills directly…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Behavioral Objectives, Cognitive Processes, Curriculum Guides
Bursuk, Laura – 1971
The comparative effectiveness of correlated listening-reading and reading-only comprehension lessons was studied using high school retarded readers with varying sensory modality learning preferences. Over a one-semester period, comparable lessons were taught to two groups matched for IQ, age, reading grade level, and freedom from sensory defects.…
Descriptors: Aural Learning, Learning Modalities, Learning Processes, Multisensory Learning
Dunn, Thomas G.; Hansen, Duncan – 1972
Visuals, like pictures, charts, diagrams, graphics, and the like, are widely used in education. However, there is little justification in the research literature for their use. The overall purpose of this exploratory study was to find out more about the processing of visuals or graphics in an educational task. Specifically, it was thought that…
Descriptors: Charts, Computer Assisted Instruction, Critical Path Method, Diagrams
Illinois State Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, Springfield. Instructional Materials Center. – 1972
Intended for parents of blind preschool children, the booklet lists games and activities to develop independence by means of tactual, aural, physical, self care, social visual, and mobility training. Activities are listed for the 3-year-old, the 4-year-old, and the 5-year-old under the specific skill developed. Instructions for particular games…
Descriptors: Aural Learning, Blindness, Exceptional Child Education, Home Instruction
Siegel, Philip – 1971
A course which is an introduction to musical symbol is presented in workbook form. The course is designed to help pupils develop the skills necessary to identify and reproduce a staff, notes, and to place notes on a line and in a space. The objective of the course is to enable pupils to identify and reproduce: an eighth note, half note, staff,…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Auditory Perception, Cognitive Objectives, Course Content
TRISMEN, DONALD A. – 1966
CONCEPTS FOR USE IN LINKING VISUAL INPUTS TO COGNITIVE OUTCOMES WERE PRESENTED. IN ADDITION, TWO EVALUATION PROPOSALS FOR THE CONTINUING CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM, EDUCATION THROUGH VISION, WERE DETAILED. SAMPLES OF THIS PROGRAM'S TEST BATTERY WERE INCLUDED IN THE REPORT WITH THE TWO EVALUATION PROPOSALS FOR DETERMINING THE EFFECTS OF THE…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Associative Learning, Audiovisual Aids, Cognitive Development
Porcher, Louis – Francais dans le Monde, 1978
An overview of the topics in this issue. The place of authentic documents; their use in promoting communicative competence; new uses of visuals, such as cartoons; visuals for evaluation purposes; their cultural value; and the development of video-cassettes are discussed. (Text is in French.) (AMH)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Cultural Education, Elementary Secondary Education, French
Anglin, Gary J. – Educational Communication and Technology, 1986
Reviews research that shows positive contribution of pictures to young children's recall of prose material and describes two experiments conducted with college graduate students to see if positive effects can be extended to older learners. Results after immediate and delayed testing show recall is improved for older learners as well. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Graduate Students, Higher Education, Improvement
Peer reviewedHoffner, Cynthia; And Others – Communication Research, 1988
Examines developmental changes in children's ability to comprehend visual and verbal narrative. Finds that understanding and integrating temporal aspects of a narrative is more difficult for young children when the story is presented visually than when presented verbally, whereas older children comprehend narratives in both formats equally well.…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Communications, Child Development, Children, Communication Research
Peer reviewedGorham, Joan – Communication Education, 1986
Exploring material from the ERIC database and other sources, the report (1) annotates introductory articles regarding the assessment, categorization, and implications of learning styles, showing how they relate to communication literature research; (2) describes H. Witkin's extensive cognitive style research; and (3) details L. Curry's review of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Mapping, Cognitive Style, Communication Research, Field Dependence Independence
