The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of CBI lesson sequence type and cognitive style of field dependence on learning from Computer-Based Cooperative Instruction (CBCI) in WEB on the dependent measures, achievement, reading comprehension and reading rate. Eighty-seven college undergraduate students were randomly assigned to…

Ninety-five secondary students were given textbook material in which two sequence variations (web and linear) were used in relation to the information processing strategies (serialist or holistic) demonstrated by the students. Users of the web-structured sequence scored higher on concept retention. (Author/JJD)

This review of the literature on aptitude by treatment interaction concentrates on studies which investigated two or more instructional treatments in a quantitative subject area--primarily mathematics--with different populations of students on whom measures of individual differences in aptitude were available. Designed to formulate some tentative…