Diagonality in Adults and the Interaction Between Spatial Ability and Explicitness of Instruction [electronic resource] / Peter A. Lucas and Francis J. Di Vesta.
A computer-displayed 3-D tic-tac-toe game was used to investigate adult perceptual biases in dealing with diagonal line orientations. Also investigated was the interaction between prior spatial ability and the effects of explicit visual modeling and structured practice on performance. Results indica...
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| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | A computer-displayed 3-D tic-tac-toe game was used to investigate adult perceptual biases in dealing with diagonal line orientations. Also investigated was the interaction between prior spatial ability and the effects of explicit visual modeling and structured practice on performance. Results indicated a strong selective difficulty in dealing with 3-dimensional diagonals. Spatial ability interacted with explicitness of instruction to produce differential effects that varied over trials. For high spatials, explicit modeling facilitated initial performance, while structured practice resulted in the most improvement over trials. These results are discussed in terms of instructional theory and implications for trait x treatment research. (Author) |
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| Item Description: | ERIC Document Number: ED152759. ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting, American Educational Research Association (Toronto, Canada, March 27-31, 1978). |
| Physical Description: | 36 p. |