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Wescott, Alice Legenza – Reading Improvement, 1980
Establishes the validity of the Picture Potency Formula as a tool to predict the extent to which children will respond to pictures. (FL)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Illustrations
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Wyver, Shirley R.; Markham, Rosalyn; Hlavacek, Sonia – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2000
A comparison of the performance of children (ages 6-12) with visual impairments (n=15) and sighted children (n=15) on two tasks involving inferences found some differences between the two groups when the information was visual, but not when it was nonvisual. Visual impairment affected some aspects of a word association task. (Contains references.)…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Children, Cognitive Processes, Context Clues
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Sagi, Abraham – Journal of Experimental Education, 1980
The developmental course of children's automatic extraction of meaning from printed words is recharted by using a Stroop-type recall task. Results confirm that, after a year of practice with reading material, children do automatically extract meaning from a single printed word. (GK)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Associative Learning, Color, Elementary Education