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Do English Listening Outcome and Cognitive Load Change for Different Media Delivery Modes in U-Learning?
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Chang, Chi-Cheng; Lei, Hao; Tseng, Ju-Shih – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
Although ubiquitous learning enhances students' access to learning materials, it is crucial to find out which media delivery modes produce the best results for English listening comprehension. The present study examined the effect of media delivery mode (sound and text vs. sound) on English listening comprehension and cognitive load. Participants…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Teaching Methods, Listening Comprehension, English (Second Language)
Learning Processes and Approaches: Examining Their Interrelationships to Understand Student Learning
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Chennamsetti, Prashanti – Online Submission, 2008
The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between two contrasting research paradigms, namely, cognitive and experiential research, a significant literature review previously unaddressed. To achieve this objective, a conceptual description of three theoretical frameworks, Dual-Store model, Levels of Processing (LOP; drawn from…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Learning Processes, Cognitive Psychology, Teaching Methods
Exploring Retellings as Assessment: Insights and Patterns.
Chandler, Paul Michael; And Others – 1989
A study examined the emergent patterns and anomalies of adult readers as they unload information from their long term memory into their retellings of text. Participants were 16 graduate students enrolled in a Reading Education Seminar at Indiana University. Participants formed a heterogeneous group which included speakers of six different…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Style, Educational Assessment, Graduate Students
Nutrition Education and Gerontology Services Project.
Meckler, Terry Anne; Vogler, James D. – 1983
The Nutrition and Gerontology Services Project attempted to affect basal nutrition knowledge and address dietary changes for 478 California senior citizens who were live-in residents in homes for the aged. Two instruments were employed to measure study variables. Knowledge of nutrition was measured by the Nutritional Learning Scale, an orally…
Descriptors: Dietetics, Eating Habits, Educational Media, Knowledge Level
A System of Constructs Used to Define Learning in Development; Further Used to Define Disturbances of Learning in and to Define Corresponding "Treatments" of Persons Who Manifest Retarded Intellectual Development. An ILF-Approach.
Nyborg, Magne – 1982
A theoretical situation-person-interactions model of learning and performance is presented, and applications of the model through the Instrumental Language Functions (ILF) approach with preschool normal and older variously handicapped children and adults are described. The model is graphically depicted and discussed according to such aspects as…
Descriptors: Adults, Classification, Concept Formation, Decoding (Reading)
Knowledge Learned in College: What Is Remembered?
Semb, George B.; Ellis, John A. – 1992
The question examined in this paper is: what is known exactly about variables that affect long-term retention of knowledge learned in school? U. Neisser (1982) asserts that "it is difficult to find even a single study, ancient or modern, of what is retained from academic instruction." Further, popular belief holds that much of the knowledge…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Educational Research, Higher Education, Individual Differences