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Allen, Keith D.; Fuqua, R. Wayne – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1985
Evaluates the efficacy of two training procedures for eliminating selective stimulus control observed with three trainable mentally retarded children. In another experiment, improvements in stimulus control were not a function of varying degrees of difficulty between stimulus sets or of a prior history of discrimination training with the less…
Descriptors: Children, Dimensional Preference, Discrimination Learning, Educational Diagnosis
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Silverman, Irwin W.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1984
Varied conditions under which children aged four to five years matched the area of a rectangle with a given width or height to that of a square. Subjects matched one dimension of the rectangle to one side of the square suggesting that area matches seemed to be based on a side-matching strategy. (Author/AS)
Descriptors: Area, Cognitive Mapping, Dimensional Preference, Evaluative Thinking
Scribner, Shauna A.; Anderson, Marcia A. – Journal of Industrial Teacher Education, 2005
According to Farrell and Kotrlik (2003), educators can become more effective teachers by assessing their students' preferred learning styles. This assessment can help in planning the curriculum and in selecting appropriate instructional methods. Thus, research is needed to determine if there is a link between students' learning styles and their…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Visualization, Teaching Methods, Cognitive Ability