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Fouzder, Nani B.; Markwick, Andrew J. W. – International Journal of Science Education, 2000
Describes the affective factors involved in the academic progress and achievement of newly-arrived bilingual twins in a secondary school in London. Finds that different personality traits and self-perceptions resulted in the development of their divergent personal learning styles, and that task interest, appropriate learning strategies, and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Style, Foreign Countries
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Jans, Veronique; Leclercq, Dieudonne – Educational Psychology, 1997
Identifies metacognitive realism as the accurate assessment by a learner of their knowledge on a subject. Considers whether realism in metacognition is a stable trait, and possible influences. Briefly reviews the literature and experimental evidence and concludes that metacognitive realism is both style and strategy. (MJP)
Descriptors: Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Restructuring, Cognitive Style, Educational Psychology
Knight, Carol Bugg; Halpin, Gerald; Halpin, Glennelle – Research in the Schools, 1996
Whether grades earned in reading, mathematics, and language by 158 second graders when learning environmental accommodations were made in the areas of light, sound, temperature, design, and mobility differed from grades of control group students without these accommodations was studied. Control group students had higher mathematics and language…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Style, Control Groups, Educational Environment
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Dunn, Rita; Dunn, Kenneth – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2005
This article discusses the evolution of teaching approaches in concert with the findings of over three decades of researches on student perceptual strengths. Confusing reports of successes and only limited successes for students with varied perceptual strengths suggest that combined auditory, visual, tactual, and/or kinesthetic instructional…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Underachievement, Cognitive Style, Teaching Methods
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Simon, Lisa – English Education, 2007
This article describes the results of an inquiry/multigenre project undertaken by students in a literacy foundations course. The project's initial pedagogical goal was to provide pre- and in-service teachers with multiple and engaging opportunities to read and write in areas of their interests. That goal expanded to encompass the critical literacy…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Literacy, Education Courses, Higher Education
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Bezemer, Jeff; Kress, Gunther – Written Communication, 2008
Frequently writing is now no longer the central mode of representation in learning materials--textbooks, Web-based resources, teacher-produced materials. Still (as well as moving) images are increasingly prominent as carriers of meaning. Uses and forms of writing have undergone profound changes over the last decades, which calls for a social,…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Semiotics, Multimedia Instruction, Multimedia Materials
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Britsch, Susan Jane; Heise, Kathryn A. – Science and Children, 2006
Children with special learning needs participate fully in the authors' science classes every day; their job as teachers is to bring about meaningful science connections for all students, including those who do not communicate their knowledge most effectively through the ways most typically associated with classroom learning (i.e., reading,…
Descriptors: Science Projects, Hands on Science, Science Instruction, Special Needs Students
Beamish, Claude R. – 1995
This paper presents basic information about the brain and how learning takes place, considers causes of differing human temperaments as explained by principles of Jungian psychology, reports on research on the causes of low achievement, and suggests a method to correct many educational problems. Principles of developmental neurology and right/left…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Brain, Brain Hemisphere Functions
Sitz, Robert – 1995
A simulated art history textbook reading assignment was designed to examine the effects of visual information on student learning and understanding. A sample of 234 students was taken from a population of freshman/sophomore English students in a large metropolitan community college district. In phase one of the study, students took the Group…
Descriptors: Art Education, Art History, Cognitive Style, Community Colleges
Crawford County Literacy Council, Meadville, PA. – 1996
This document consists of a project report and tutor activities book from a project that was conducted for tutors associated with the Crawford County, Pennsylvania, READ Program. The project report describes how the commercial publications currently being used as tutor resource materials were examined to identify strategies appropriate for adult…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Aural Learning, Decoding (Reading)
Koester, Lynne Sanford; Spencer, Patricia E. – 1992
This study investigated associations between infants' prelinguistic communicative behaviors at 9 months and their communication and language performance at 12 and 18 months. The inclusion of both hearing (N=19) and deaf (N=16) infants in the study allowed identification of effects related to the receptive communication modality (vision versus…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Communication Skills, Deafness, Early Experience
Vallarta, Carolyn R. – 1991
This report describes a 12-week program designed to increase time on task for kindergarten students. Members of a targeted group of kindergarten students were identified as being off task an average of 1.9 times more than the rest of the class. A program that incorporated the dominant learning styles of students in the target group with…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attention Span, Cognitive Style, Critical Thinking
O'Donnell, William J.; Endsley, Glenn J. – 1986
This study focuses on the possible relationships between cognitive preference scores of algebra students and level of algebra, sex, and performance rank in algebra classes. The sample consisted of 162 students from a high school in the Denver area. The instruments used were the Cognitive Preference Test: Mathematics (Revised) (CPTM) and the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Rating, Algebra, Cognitive Structures
Pittman, Mildred – 1983
Knowledge of and use of the information provided by learning style theories can be of help in providing better educational experiences for students. Learning style preferences are of particular significance in programs such as allied health/health occupations education that practice selective admissions. Since the students have all been judged…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Allied Health Occupations Education, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Style
Hancock, Anne Campbell; Byrd, Diana – 1984
A study tested the hypothesis that learning disabled (LD), specifically reading disabled, children differ from "normal" children in their ability to acquire automatic perceptual processes. The subjects were 16 third grade and 15 sixth grade students, of whom 7 third grade and 3 sixth grade students were classified as LD. LaBerge's letter…
Descriptors: Attention, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Testing
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