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Direct linkXi, Xiaoming – Language Testing, 2005
This study examines how task characteristics (the number of visual chunks and the amount of planning time) and test-taker characteristics (graph familiarity) influence the perceptual and cognitive processes involved in graph comprehension, the strategies used in describing graphs, and the scores obtained on the graph description task in a…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Familiarity, Graphs, Cognitive Processes
Download full textTindal, Gerald; Deno, Stanley – 1983
The focus of this study was on the relationship between visual and statistical analyses of time series data and the degree to which characteristics of the data influenced this relationship. A total of 52 teachers took part in evaluating a series of graphs having prespecified characteristics. The independent variables manipulated included: slope,…
Descriptors: Adults, Correlation, Data Analysis, Elementary School Teachers
