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Individual Differences in Schema Utilization during Discourse Processing.

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Spiro, Rand J.; Tirre, William C. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1980

Discourse processing involves an interaction of text based processes and prior knowledge. It was shown that college students varied in their relative employment of knowledge-based processes, and that individuals tended to be more "text bound" when they were more "stimulus bound" according to an embedded figures test.…

Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Higher Education, Knowledge Level

An Exploratory Study of Information-Seeking Behaviors and Learning with Hypermedia Information Systems.

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Small, Ruth V.; Grabowski, Barbara L. – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 1992

Describes a study that identified various individual information seeking behavior patterns and determined how users' motivation, prior knowledge, gender, and cognitive processing influenced learning and retention within a hypermedia environment for undergraduate students. Use of the Group Embedded Figures Test is described and further research is…

Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction, Field Dependence Independence, Higher Education