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Peer reviewedSmall, 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
Chandran, Sarath; And Others – 1985
Evidence from the research literature suggests that a variety of cognitive factors are responsible for chemistry achievement. This investigation examined the role that four cognitive factors, namely, prior knowledge, formal reasoning ability, memory capacity and field independence/dependence, play on achievement in chemistry as measured by tests…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Chemistry
