Parting A Read Sea Of Images: An Exploration Of Field Dependent-Independent Responses To Minimalist, Pictographic And Infographic Data Displays

ABSTRACT Western society reflects an âeikoncentric eraâ when contemporary instruction has become image -centered. Textbooks, journals, popular media as well as computer-based and web- based instructional media are filled by pictures that are intended to accomplish learning. Imagery is widely believed to represent an efficient, understandable method for relaying information and clarifying instruction for nearly all learners. However, those who subscribe to the adage âa picture is worth a thousand wordsâ often fail to acknowledge individual differences in visual comprehension and cognition. The field dependent-independent (FDI) cognitive style describes individual learner differences that can thwart visual learning. Information graphics are among the frequently used types of imagery that portray data. There is little empirical evidence to guide their design, and their creation is often based on intuition or opinion. This study researched the ways FDI learners comprehend and aesthetically assess minimalist information graphics, pictograms and infographics. Those participants who represented the most extreme field-dependent or field-independent learners were invited to participate in a two-part study. An instrument named the Comparative Information Graphic Test (CIG-T) was developed for testing comprehension of and perceived aesthetic efficacy, value and preference for minimalist information graphics, pictograms and infographics by FDI learner

Motions 2002 volume 37 number 6

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Using technologies of the self to stimulate students\u27 intelligences in English as a foreign language learning

The purpose of this curriculum project is to provide an approach to enrich the process of teaching and learning. This project uses psychological tools to stimulate students\u27 multiple intelligences and to encourage students to know how to manage their learning, so that learning English will no longer be boring; instead it will be creative and practical

The effects of temperament-based teaching strategies and gender on undergraduate music achievement in an introductory music course

The purpose of this study was to investigate effects of music instructional strategies, student temperaments, and gender on achievement in a college freshman music introduction course. Two sets of instructional strategies were implemented: Extravert-Sensing strategies (ES) and non- Extravert-Sensing (NES) strategies, as suggested by Lawrence (1986), Myers (1980), and Keirsey and Bates (1978). Two intact groups of undergraduate students at Piedmont Bible College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, who were enrolled in a Music Introduction Course, served as subjects. One group (n = 26) received the ES instructional treatment. A second group (n=24) experienced the NES instructional treatment. Nineteen males and 7 females comprised the first group, and 12 males and 12 females comprised the second. Subjects received 50 minutes of music instruction three times weekly for 15 weeks, and were pretested and posttested using a Music Introduction Achievement Test (MIAT, Winner, 1989). The MIAT was used to measure subjects' music achievement relative to three areas of music instruction: music philosophy, music fundamentals, and song leading. Three subtests, one for each section of the course, were administered in each instructional group to determine the short-term effects of the independent variables. In addition, subjects were administered the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (Briggs & Myers, 1976) to determine their temperament types

"Belarus in Brief"

АНГЛИЙСКИЙ ЯЗЫКРЕСПУБЛИКА БЕЛАРУСЬУЧЕБНЫЕ ПОСОБИЯУчебное пособие знакомит студентов 1 курса ФПИГ с историей, природными ресурсами, городами, населением, обычаями и традициями, политической жизнью Республики Беларусь. Пособие состоит из четырех частей

A study of why some physic concepts in the South African Physical Science curriculum are poorly understood in order to develop a targeted action-research intervention for Newton’s second law

Globally, many students show a poor understanding of concepts in high school physics and lack the necessary problem-solving skills that the course demands. The application of Newton’s second law was found to be particularly problematic through document analysis of South African examination feedback reports, as well as from an analysis of the physics examinations at a pair of well-resourced South African independent schools that follow the Independent Examination Board curriculum. Through an action-research approach, a resource for use by students was designed and modified to improve students’ understanding of this concept, while modelling problemsolving methods. The resource consisted of brief revision notes, worked examples and scaffolded exercises. The design of the resource was influenced by the theory of cognitive apprenticeship, cognitive load theory and conceptual change theory. One of the aims of the resource was to encourage students to translate between the different representations of a problem situation: symbolic, abstract, model and concrete. The impact of this resource was evaluated at a pair of schools using a mixed methods approach. This incorporated pre- and post-tests for a quantitative assessment, qualitative student evaluations and the analysis of examination scripts. There was an improvement from pre- to post-test for all four iterations of the intervention and these improvements were shown to be significant. The use of the resource led to an increase in the quality and quantity of diagrams drawn by students in subsequent assessments

Maine Woods: Vol. 38, No. 24 January 06, 1916 (Outing Edition)

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Multimedia and Audience: Implications for Executive Summaries

In an effort to put technical reports into a multimedia format, this thesis explored audience analysis and multimedia issues related to executive summaries. While multimedia has been shown to be effective at conveying complex information in certain environments, little research has been done to apply this technology to technical reporting. This thesis concentrates on the executive summary audience because the executive summary is the most read and most important section of a report. To analyze the audience, I conducted telephone interviews with report readers using an interview form I developed based on Mathes and Stevenson\u27s guidelines for conducting an audience analysis. I included a section to assess the readers\u27 perceptions of the usefulness of four forms of multimedia--sound, video, hypertext, and CD-ROM--for effectively retrieving information from an executive summary. The data results show on average a well educated, middle aged group of readers with considerable experience in their jobs. In the multimedia assessment, hypertext was rated the most useful at retrieving information from an executive summary, with video, CD-ROM, and sound following in that order. For report writers, then, the data helps to narrow down the type of information to include and what multimedia format to consider when preparing an executive summary

Philosophy & Architecture

Philosophy & Architecture special number of philosophy@LISBON (International eJournal) 5 | 2016 edited by Tomás N. Castro with Maribel Mendes Sobreira Centro de Filosofia da Universidade de Lisboa ISSN 2182-437