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Effects of Teaching Approach on Problem Solving Ability of Agricultural Education Students with Varying Learning Styles.
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Dyer, James E.; Osborne, Edward W. – Journal of Agricultural Education, 1996
One group of Illinois secondary agriculture students was taught using a problem-solving approach (PSA), the other with a subject-matter approach (SMA). A problem-solving posttest and Group Embedded Figures Test showed significantly higher problem-solving ability in the PSA group. Field independent learners in the PSA group significantly increased…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Cognitive Style, Field Dependence Independence, High School Students
Effects of Student Learning Styles on Short and Long Term Retention of Subject Matter Using Various Teaching Approaches.
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Dyer, James E.; Osborne, Edward W. – Journal of Agricultural Education, 1999
High school agriculture students were taught using either a problem-solving (n=60) or subject-matter (n=52) approach. There were no differences in short- or long-term retention using either method across different learning styles. A moderate correlation was found between field independence and higher normal curve equivalent scores. (SK)
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Cognitive Style, Field Dependence Independence, High Schools
The Effect of LOGO Instruction Method on Problem Solving Skills and the Relationship of Cognitive Style on Problem Solving Skills Learned through LOGO Instruction.
Roach, Debra Bruene – 1988
The study compared the effects of two instructional strategies for teaching the programming language, Logo, on the problem solving skills of third graders. The two strategies are the guided discovery approach, a student-directed learning environment with the teacher as a facilitator, and the direct instruction approach, with specific…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Field Dependence Independence, Grade 3, Intermode Differences
Content Emphasis, Practice, and Cognitive Style in Analogical Problem Solving.
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Hsu, Chia-Ling; Wedman, John F. – Journal of Research and Development in Education, 1994
This study investigated the effect of content emphasis, learning practice, and field dependence/independence on college students' analogous problem-solving skills. Under certain conditions, field-independent subjects performed significantly better than field-dependent subjects. Subjects given a principle-based content emphasis performed…
Descriptors: Analogy, Cognitive Style, College Students, Field Dependence Independence
The Association of Selected Conative Variables to Field-Dependence with Inferences for Reasoning Characteristics in Marketing Education.
Fritz, Robert L. – 1991
A study examined the association between field-dependence and its related information processing characteristics, and educational cognitive style as a model of conative influence. Data were collected from 145 secondary marketing education students in nothern Georgia during spring 1991. Descriptive statistics, Pearson product moment correlations,…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Distributive Education
The Relation between the Teaching Strategies of Parents and the Cognitive Style of Their Children.
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Kogan, Nathan; And Others – 1991
This study examined concurrent and long-term effects of parents' teaching strategies on their children's cognitive styles. A total of 83 mothers and 74 fathers helped their 4-year-old sons or daughters with 4 problem-solving tasks. The interactions between parents and children were observed and evaluated. Two measures of field…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Cognitive Style, Convergent Thinking, Daughters