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Gillet, Pamela – 1993
This book presents training activities for special education or regular teachers to use with children having auditory processing disorders. Each chapter begins with a discussion of theory and general intervention guidelines and then presents remedial activities. The first chapter looks at auditory processes overall, lists the normal sequence of…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception, Auditory Tests, Auditory Training
Chesnick, M. A.; And Others – 1992
This study examined the development of metaprocessing abilities in children with varying degrees of language abilities and sought to determine if the patterns of metaprocessing development that emerged were similar for these ability groups. Subjects were 141 children ages 4-5 at the beginning of the study, divided into a control group, a low…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Comprehension, Discourse Analysis, Early Childhood Education
Erland, Jan – 1992
The Mem-ExSpan Accelerative Cognitive Training System (MESACTS) is described as a cognitive skills training program for schools, businesses, and industry. The program achieves extraordinary academic results in reading and mathematics with 1 semester of input 4 days a week for 30 minutes a day. Intensive versions of the program accelerate…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Careers, Cognitive Processes
Sinkavich, Frank J. – 1991
The relationships between classroom performance and five possible predictor variables were studied. The ways in which these variables relate to performance in a classroom learning situation were examined, with the hypothesis that attributional style and motivation would be the best predictors of classroom performance. The variables were: (1)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Education, Attribution Theory, Classroom Techniques
Scaramella-Nowinski, Valerie L. – 1991
The paper presents a discussion of human mental processes as they relate to learning disabilities. Pathognomonic symptoms associated with disturbances to brain areas or functional systems are discussed, as well as treatment procedures. This brain behavior relationship is offered as a basis for a classification system that is seen to more clearly…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attention, Check Lists, Classification
Jacobowitz, Tina; Haupt, Edward J. – 1983
To determine whether the Posner task, which measures the speed at which information is retrieved from the long term memory, improves prediction of reading comprehension, 121 students from reading and study skills and teacher education courses were administered the Posner task and listening comprehension, reading comprehension, and SAT verbal…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Long Term Memory, Measurement Techniques
Nelson, Robert L. – 1983
Students in college developmental reading classes were given a questionnaire about the experiences they had had in reading during their elementary and high school years. They were asked questions about (1) the materials they used in former reading classes, (2) books or stories they had found particulary memorable, (3) the effectiveness of…
Descriptors: College Students, Elementary Secondary Education, Memory, Reading Attitudes
Hannafin, Michael J. – 1987
The effects of cognitive and behavioral orienting activities and practice on student learning of cued and uncued information were examined in this study. The subjects were 54 grade 9 students (28 males and 26 females), who were classified as high or low ability based on the verbal intelligence estimate of the Iowa Test of Basic Skills. These…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Computer Assisted Instruction, Drills (Practice), Grade 9
Shea, Mary Ann, Ed. – 1990
This collection of essays, which evolved from the Professional Lecture Series on Teaching and Learning and Instructional Workshops on Teaching and Learning held at the University of Colorado (Boulder), addresses a variety of styles and situations for teaching and learning. The following essays are included: (1) "Teaching as Architecture:…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Creative Thinking, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Ethics
Funkhouser, Charles – 1990
The major perspectives on problem solving of the twentieth century are reviewed--associationism, Gestalt psychology, and cognitive science. The results of the review on teaching problem solving and the uses of computers to teach problem solving are included. Four major issues related to the teaching of problem solving are discussed: (1)…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Structures, Computation
Stone, Mark – 1990
A factor analysis study was conducted of the Wide Range Assessment of Memory and Learning (WRAML), a test developed from a test structure model of memory and learning. The battery is composed of nine subtests (three verbal, three visual, and three learning subsets). The sample consisted of 903 students aged 5 years through 8 years 11 months, and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Cognitive Tests, Comparative Testing
Wardell, David – 1985
Cloze procedure, a testing method which systematically deletes words in written prose and then measures the accuracy of the information is reviewed from a historical viewpoint. Redundancy is placed in a verbal context and can be noted on three separate levels of language: (1) surface syntactic structure; (2) deep syntactic structure; and (3)…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Cognitive Processes, Context Clues, Cues
Menglan, Zuo; Chang, Wei – 1987
Reviewed are recent studies of the cognitive development of Chinese children. The discussion identifies: (1) systematic studies of children's cognitive development; (2) studies on the development of thinking; (3) studies of memory development; and (4) studies on the influences of various national cultures and education on the development of…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cross Cultural Studies
Reder, Lynne M. – 1985
This paper presents a general framework for the process of answering questions from memory. The focus is primarily on verification and recognition tasks. Six experiments support the assumptions of the proposed framework. The experiments are designed to address the following categories of inquiry: (1) Can we adjust our strategy preference to mirror…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Conceptual Tempo
Buss, Ray R.; And Others – 1981
Recent research has shown that when individuals hear an impoverished, atypical, or disorganized story and are asked to recall it, they can and do produce a canonical version of it. To determine if this "strategic" manipulation of story structure undergoes developmental changes, two experiments were conducted using second and sixth grade children…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Developmental Stages, Elementary Secondary Education