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Winn, William – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1982
Results of this study suggest that diagrams provide different types of information for ninth-grade students (N=273) and that learners process each type differently. Flow diagrams running across a page from either left to right or right to left, or with or without drawings of dinosaurs, were used. (JN)
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Diagrams, Grade 9, Junior High School Students
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Diessner, Rhett; Walker, Jacqueline L. – Journal of American Indian Education, 1986
Reports possible validity of particular American Indian cognitive style based on the Bannatyne categories of the Wechsler Scales. Found statistically significant pattern of spatial ability, sequential ability, and verbal conceptual ability in 75 junior and senior high school Yakima Indian students. (LFL)
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indians, Cognitive Style, Concept Formation
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Craig, Helen B.; Gordon, Harold W. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 1988
Hearing-impaired adolescents (n=62) were evaluated on tests of specialized cognitive functioning. Variables noted were reading and mathematics achievement, speech production, etiology, and age at impairment onset. Performance was below average for verbal/sequential skills of the left cerebral hemisphere and average or above for the visuospatial…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Tests, Etiology