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Weed, Keri; Ryan, Ellen Bouchard – 1982
In a study that investigated differences in the processing styles of beginning readers, a Pictograph Sentence Memory Test (PSMT) was administered to first and second grade students to determine their processing style as well as to assess instructional effects. Based on their responses to the PSMT, the children were classified as either visual or…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Beginning Reading, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style
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Simonson, Michael R., Ed.; Hooper, Elizabeth, Ed. – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 1981
The 31 papers selected for presentation at the 1981 Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) convention and inclusion in this document were subjected to a rigorous blind reviewing process and represent some of the most current thinking in educational communications and technology. Topics covered include aptitude treatment…
Descriptors: Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Audiovisual Communications, Cognitive Style, Educational Research
Australian Society of Educational Technology, Adelaide. – 1978
This report of the 1978 activities of the Australian Society of Educational Technology includes reports, articles, a state of the art review, and a technical report. Section I lists the memberships of the national executive and state chapter council, and presents a national report and reports from four state chapters. Three articles are presented…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Databases, Educational Media, Educational Technology
KUMATA, HIDEYA – 1958
TWO STUDIES IN CLOSED-CIRCUIT INSTRUCTIONAL TV WERE PERFORMED AT MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY. CLASSES SUBJECTED TO THE STUDY WERE SOCIAL SCIENCE AND ADVERTISING. THE OBJECTIVE WAS TO MEASURE COURSE RELATED STUDENT ATTITUDES. THE SOCIAL SCIENCE PROJECT WAS CONDUCTED OVER 3 DAYS. STUDENTS WERE DIVIDED INTO 18 EXPERIMENTAL GROUPS, SOME RECEIVING LIVE…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Attitude Change, Closed Circuit Television, College Students
WHITE, BURTON L.
THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO FIND OUT IF INFANTS WOULD EXHIBIT BEHAVIORS CONSISTENT WITH PIAGET'S OBSERVATIONS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF RECIPROCAL COORDINATIONS AMONG THE LOOKING, SUCKING AND GRASPING SCHEMAS. A SECOND PURPOSE WAS TO SEE IF INCREASED LOOKING AT AND TOUCHING OF NEARBY OBJECTS BY INFANTS WOULD RESULT IN ACCELERATION OF THE…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Conceptual Schemes, Eye Hand Coordination, Human Development
ROSENTHAL-HILL, IRENE; SUPPES, PATRICK – 1967
CONCEPT FORMATION IN 50 KINDERGARTENERS WAS STUDIED BY REQUIRING THE CHILDREN TO SORT CARDS ACCORDING TO ONE OF FOUR ATTRIBUTES OF THREE DIFFERENT DIMENSIONS. THE OBJECTIVE WAS TO EXPLORE THE VALIDITY AND LIMITATIONS OF AN ALL-OR-NONE LEARNING MODEL FOR COMPLEX CLASSIFYING RESPONSES. INFORMATION WAS PRESENTED TO THE SUBJECT BY TWO POSITIVE…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Associative Learning, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation
BATEMAN, BARBARA – 1967
THE VIEW THAT READING IS A ROTE, AUTOMATIC, CONDITIONED, NONMEANINGFUL PROCESS WHICH PRECEDES (THUS IS SEPARABLE FROM) COMPREHENSION IS CORROBORATED IN A TWO-PART INVESTIGATION. IN PART I, EVIDENCE IS PRESENTED TO SUPPORT THE POSITION THAT READING IS A NONMEANINGFUL PROCESS. IN PART II, A STUDY OF THE EFFICACY OF AN AUDITORY APPROACH TO…
Descriptors: Aural Learning, Beginning Reading, Comparative Analysis, Grade 1
Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA. Graduate School of Education. – 1966
THIS SUPPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHY LISTS MATERIALS ON VARIOUS FACETS OF HUMAN LEARNING. APPROXIMATELY 60 UNANNOTATED REFERENCES ARE PROVIDED FOR DOCUMENTS DATING FROM 1954 TO 1966. JOURNAL ARTICLES, BOOKS, RESEARCH REPORTS, AND CONFERENCE PAPERS ARE LISTED. SOME SUBJECT AREAS INCLUDED ARE (1) LEARNING PARAMETERS AND ABILITY, (2) RETENTION AND…
Descriptors: Arousal Patterns, Bibliographies, Concept Formation, Disadvantaged
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Spaleny, Eugen; Peprnik, Jaroslav – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1967
To increase the efficacy of visual instruction, more must be known about the operational forces within the image, and the determining factors in picture quality as a means of communication. The theory of information applied to this analysis of pictorial content, the fundamental thesis being that the value of an image depends on its content of…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Audiovisual Aids, Communication (Thought Transfer), Grammar
Wolf, Judith M.; McAlonie, Mary Lynne – 1975
A language training approach employing a multimodality receptive language program was used with eight retarded preschool children to increase receptive language development and to stimulate verbal (expressive) language behavior. Day activity center teachers worked with the Ss three times weekly for 7 months using the Minnesota Early Language…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Day Care Centers, Exceptional Child Research, Expressive Language
Feeley, Joan T. – 1975
Elementary and secondary teachers are recognizing that today's children are products of a visual era who bring visual literacy to their school language learning. Visual resources may be developed and used as a valuable motivational technique. The following programs utilizing this approach are outlined: Dorothy Lopez' development of polaroid…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Bilingual Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 7
O'Bryan, K. G.; Silverman, Harry – 1972
Special equipment was used to record the eye movement patterns of 60 children enrolled in a reading clinic. There were 20 children in each of three groups: good readers, slow readers, and non-readers. The children were shown printed material on a screen accompanied by action sequences and voice recordings similar to what they might see on…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Eye Fixations, Eye Movements, Eyes
Rowe, Bobby Louise – 1974
This study established a controlled instructional procedure for visual concept learning in a school setting and investigated the possibility that an ability trait difference could affect visual learning of the concept. A total of 84 high visualizers and 84 low visualizers were selected from 629 fourth grade children according to their scores on…
Descriptors: Art Appreciation, Art Education, Discrimination Learning, Elementary Education
Rust, Langbourne W. – 1974
By observing the attentiveness of children watching six pilot programs of "The Electric Company," the staff of the Children's Television Workshop (CTW) gathered detailed data on the visual appeal of the show. Six high appeal attributes were isolated: (1) functionally relevant action; (2) strong rhythm and rhyme; (3) electronic bridges;…
Descriptors: Arousal Patterns, Attention, Childhood Interests, Educational Television
Chang, Lynette Yun Chau Char – 1968
This study was designed to examine the ability of 256 above-average sixth-grade pupils to use six categories of verbal context clues in listening and reading. The extent to which success in determining deleted words was associated with the word form class membership of deleted words was also examined. A hierarchy of difficulty was established for…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Cloze Procedure, Context Clues, Form Classes (Languages)
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