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Hannafin, Michael J.; Carey, James O. – 1981
A total of 152 fourth grade students participated in a study examining the effects of visual-only, verbal-only, and combined audiovisual prose presentations and different elaboration strategy conditions on student learning of abstract and concrete prose. The students saw and/or heard a short animated story, during which they were instructed to…
Descriptors: Demonstrations (Educational), Educational Research, Grade 4, Intermediate Grades
ROWEN, BETTY J.R. – 1966
ON THE BASIS OF THE ASSUMPTIONS THAT EDUCATION NEEDS TO DEVELOP CHILDREN'S FEELINGS AS MUCH AS THEIR ABILITIES TO RETAIN FACTS AND UNDERSTAND CONCEPTS AND THAT INSTRUCTION IN THE AREA OF AESTHETICS IS POSSIBLE, THIS STUDY DESCRIBES AND EVALUATES A PROGRAM FOR PRIMARY CHILDREN IN WHICH MOVEMENT EXPLORATION IS EMPLOYED TO DEVELOP AESTHETIC CONCEPTS.…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Appreciation, Art Education, Creative Development
Rosner, Herbert – 1970
Some of the necessary characteristics for a successful cross-grade tutorial reading program are described. The program incorporates characteristics conducive to maximizing the learning appeal such as preplanning with school personnel; attitudinal emphasis; orientation enrichment sessions with tutors; varied multisensory approaches coupled with…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Community Involvement, Intermediate Grades, Kinesthetic Methods
Tiedt, Sidney W., Ed. – 1968
A book of original articles was prepared for use in preservice and inservice programs for teachers and in institutes focused specifically on the teaching of disadvantaged elementary school students. Stress is on teaching techniques, with practical suggestions offered for all curricular areas. There are chapters on the disadvantaged child and his…
Descriptors: Books, Childrens Literature, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Schools
Hodges, Richard E. – Elementary English, 1965
Research evidence from linguistic studies of American English orthography and from neurophysiological and psychological research in ways that children learn indicates that the content and instructional practices of current spelling instruction programs should be drastically revised. Initial spelling instruction should encourage children to analyze…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Cognitive Processes, Educational Research, Elementary Education
Caukins, Sivan E.; And Others – 1971
A research proposal to study the effect of multisensory teaching methods in first-grade reading is presented. The focus is on sex differences in learning and in multisensory approaches to teaching. The project will involve 10 experimental and 10 control first-grade classes in several Southern California schools. Both groups will be given IQ,…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Learning Processes
Keying In, 1997
This issue focuses on the multiple types of intelligences that students and teachers possess, and provides tips for using this information in the business education classroom. The following articles are included: "How Do Students Learn Best and How Can Teachers Best Help Them?"; "Multiple Intelligences in Action in the Business Classroom";…
Descriptors: Business Education, Cognitive Style, Kinesthetic Perception, Learning Modalities
Beck, Charles R. – Educational Communication and Technology: A Journal of Theory, Research, and Development, 1983
This study compared successive formats (booklets) to simultaneous formats (display boards) to determine whether simultaneous formats increase instructional effectiveness and whether a topic of higher interest provides more learning than one of lower interest. Findings suggest older children may achieve higher learning levels with simultaneous…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Grade 5
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Sparks, Richard L.; Ganschow, Leonore – Annals of Dyslexia, 1993
This replication study and follow-up study found that, when a multisensory structured language approach to teaching Spanish was used with a group of at-risk high school students, the group's pretest and posttest scores on native language phonological processing, verbal memory and vocabulary, and foreign language aptitude measures showed…
Descriptors: Followup Studies, High Risk Students, High Schools, Instructional Effectiveness
Dennen, Vanessa Paz; Branch, Robert C. – 1995
Virtual reality is an immersive, interactive medium that manipulates the senses in order provide users with simulated experiences in computer-generated worlds. The visual design of virtual reality is an important issue, but literature has tended to stress the medium's instructional potential rather than setting forth a protocol for designing…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Simulation, Constructivism (Learning), Design Preferences
Stephen, Veronica P. – 1996
The arts are basic educational processes that involve students with different abilities and from differing age groups in sensory perception. This perception, augmented by the use of art compositions, establishes a critical dialogue between the medium and the viewer. What one views, sees, and observes in an art piece serves to create a…
Descriptors: Art Appreciation, Art Expression, Childrens Art, Class Activities
Morris, Ronald L. – 1995
A unique teaching strategy is presented, which empowers the instructor with affordable technology to become more effective in the traditional teaching-learning process, and involves a sensory montage of multimedia elements superimposed on a single classroom television monitor. Such computer resources as graphics, animation, QuickTime movies,…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Media
Tworek, Raphael J. – 1992
This study was intended to ascertain the effectiveness of videotape recordings on the achievement of ninth grade students in citizenship classes versus achievement of students where that medium was not used. Subjects for the quasi-experimental study were 183 ninth grade students in selected high school citizenship classes in a large suburban…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Citizenship Education, Conventional Instruction, Educational Television
Colorado State Dept. of Education, Denver. Div. of Special Education Services. – 1993
This document summarizes the final reports of five Colorado classroom projects funded to promote and evaluate effective instructional techniques for students with learning disabilities. (However, the projects also involved students who were not disabled.) The five projects dealt with: (1) effectiveness of using an edu-kinesthetic whole brain…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Instructional Improvement
Reese, Stephen D. – 1983
A study tested the effects of between-channel redundancy on television news learning. Redundancy, defined as shared information, was proposed as an explanatory variable that considers the relationship between information in three channels: the audio, the nonverbal pictorial, and visual-verbal print channel. It was hypothesized that pictures would…
Descriptors: Attention, Aural Learning, Higher Education, Learning Modalities
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