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Demorest, Steven M.; Schultz, Sara J. M. – Journal of Research in Music Education, 2004
In two separate studies, the authors examined fifth graders' preference for authentic and arranged versions of world music recordings, the relationship of those preference ratings to familiarity, and teachers' ability to predict student preferences. In the first study, intact classes of fifth-grade students were randomly assigned to an authentic…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Textbooks, Familiarity, Singing
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Carlson, Bonnie E.; Worden, Alissa Pollitz – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2005
This study reports analyses and findings from a public opinion survey designed to explore beliefs about domestic violence (DV) -- what it is, when it is against the law, and how prevalent it is. The project interviewed 1,200 residents from six New York communities. The analyses reveal substantial first hand and second hand experience with DV and…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Background, Public Opinion, Family Violence, Aggression
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Sims, Wendy L. – Journal of Research in Music Education, 2005
Preschool children's listening time responses to free versus directed listening activities were compared. For the free condition, children were instructed just to "listen as long as you would like." The directed condition was a written task designed to focus attention on specific aspects of the music and give children something concrete to do…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Preschool Children, Comparative Analysis, Attention Control
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Bukach, Cindy M.; Bub, Daniel N.; Masson, Michael E. J.; Lindsay, D. Stephen – Cognitive Psychology, 2004
Studies of patients with category-specific agnosia (CSA) have given rise to multiple theories of object recognition, most of which assume the existence of a stable, abstract semantic memory system. We applied an episodic view of memory to questions raised by CSA in a series of studies examining normal observers' recall of newly learned attributes…
Descriptors: Patients, Recall (Psychology), Identification, Recognition (Psychology)
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Smith, J. David; Redford, Joshua S.; Washburn, David A.; Taglialatela, Lauren A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2005
Screeners at airport security checkpoints perform an important categorization task in which they search for threat items in complex x-ray images. But little is known about how the processes of categorization stand up to visual complexity. The authors filled this research gap with screening tasks in which participants searched for members of target…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Classification, Screening Tests, Security Personnel
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Abbot-Smith, Kirsten; Lieven, Elena; Tomasello, Michael – Developmental Science, 2004
Childers and Tomasello (2001) found that training 2 1/2-year-olds on the English transitive construction greatly improves their performance on a post-test in which they must use novel verbs in that construction. In the current study, we replicated Childers and Tomasello's finding, but using a much lower frequency of transitive verbs and models in…
Descriptors: Semantics, Verbs, Familiarity, Syntax
Williams, Dana – Teaching Tolerance, 2003
This article reports on a project that challenges students to socialize with students from a variety of groups. In the observance of "Mix It Up at Lunch Day," students sit somewhere new, with someone new, in the cafeterias. More than 3,000 schools accepted the challenge as a way to bridge social boundaries in their schools.
Descriptors: Dining Facilities, Socialization, Familiarity, Interpersonal Communication
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Benenson, Gary; Piggott, Felice – Journal of Industrial Teacher Education, 2002
The word "technology" has evolved through several different meanings during the recent history of education. In 1985, the American Industrial Arts Association changed its name to the International Technology Education Association. This change reflected dissatisfaction with traditional "shop" courses, designed to prepare…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational History, Familiarity, Technology Education
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Küçüközer, Hüseyin – Science Education International, 2007
The main objective of this study was to identify prospective science teachers' conceptions on basic astronomical phenomena. A questionnaire consisting of nine open-ended questions was administered to 327 prospective science teachers. The questionnaire was constructed after extensive review of the literature and took into consideration the reported…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Science Education
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Kleider, Heather M.; Goldinger, Stephen D. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2006
Like all probabilistic decisions, recognition memory judgments are based on inferences about the strength and quality of stimulus familiarity. In recent articles, B. W. A. Whittlesea and J. Leboe (2000; J. Leboe & B. W. A. Whittlesea, 2002) proposed that such memory decisions entail various heuristics, similar to well-known heuristics in overt…
Descriptors: Heuristics, Recognition (Psychology), Familiarity, Decision Making
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Aldridge, Jill M.; Laugksch, Rudiger C.; Fraser, Barry J. – Learning Environments Research, 2006
In this study, we developed and validated a questionnaire to assess teachers' perceptions of their actual and preferred school-level environment, investigated whether teachers involved with Outcomes-Based Education (OBE) perceive the school-level environment differently from those who are not, and investigated factors in the school-level…
Descriptors: Outcome Based Education, Familiarity, Parent Participation, Measures (Individuals)
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Long, Debra L.; Wilson, Jeannette; Hurley, Ryan; Prat, Chantel S. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2006
Readers construct at least 2 interrelated mental representations when they comprehend a text: a textbase and a situation model. Two experiments were conducted with recognition memory to examine how domain knowledge and text coherence influence readers' textbase and situation-model representations. In Experiment 1, participants made remember-know…
Descriptors: Psychological Evaluation, Text Structure, Recognition (Psychology), Cognitive Processes
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Sabourin, Laura; Stowe, Laurie A.; de Haan, Ger J. – Second Language Research, 2006
In this article second language (L2) knowledge of Dutch grammatical gender is investigated. Adult speakers of German, English and a Romance language (French, Italian or Spanish) were investigated to explore the role of transfer in learning the Dutch grammatical gender system. In the first language (L1) systems, German is the most similar to Dutch…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Semantics, Familiarity, Romance Languages
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Baek, Mikyung; Damarin, Suzanne K. – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2008
Having grown up in an age of rapidly developing electronic communication technology, today's students come to higher education with high levels of comfort and familiarity with computer-mediated communication (CMC, hereafter). The students' level of comfort with CMC, coupled with CMC's promises of enabling supplemental class discussion as well as…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Computer Mediated Communication, Familiarity, Qualitative Research
Lemke, Mariann; Miller, David; Johnston, Jamie; Krenzke, Tom; Alvarez-Rojas, Laura; Kastberg, David; Jocelyn, Leslie – US Department of Education, 2005
The Adult Literacy and Lifeskills Survey (ALL) is an international comparative study conducted in 2003 to provide participating countries with information about the skills of their adult populations. ALL builds upon earlier national and international studies of adult literacy. Information from ALL addresses questions such as: (1) What is the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, International Studies, Familiarity
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