• Login
    View Item 
    •   Home
    • University Colleges
    • SUNY Brockport
    • Theses
    • Education and Human Development Master's Theses
    • View Item
    •   Home
    • University Colleges
    • SUNY Brockport
    • Theses
    • Education and Human Development Master's Theses
    • View Item
    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

    Browse

    All of SUNY Open Access RepositoryCommunitiesPublication DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsDepartmentThis CollectionPublication DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsDepartmentAuthor ProfilesView

    My Account

    LoginRegister

    Campus Communities in SOAR

    Alfred State CollegeBrockportBroomeCantonDownstateEmpireFredoniaMaritimeNew PaltzOneontaOptometryOswegoPlattsburghSUNY Polytechnic InstituteSUNY Office of Community Colleges and the Education PipelineSUNY PressUpstate Medical

    Statistics

    Most Popular ItemsStatistics by CountryMost Popular Authors

    The Contribution of Mental Imagery to Performance in Specific Targeted Comprehension Skills

    • CSV
    • RefMan
    • EndNote
    • BibTex
    • RefWorks
    Thumbnail
    Name:
    ehd_theses/990/fulltext (1).pdf
    Size:
    2.272Mb
    Format:
    PDF
    Download
    Average rating
     
       votes
    Cast your vote
    You can rate an item by clicking the amount of stars they wish to award to this item. When enough users have cast their vote on this item, the average rating will also be shown.
    Star rating
     
    Your vote was cast
    Thank you for your feedback
    Author
    Doore, Barbara Yarrington
    Keyword
    Mental Imagery
    Literature Comprehension
    Reading Comprehension
    Instruction
    Drawings
    Date Published
    1989-05-01
    
    Metadata
    Show full item record
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/6166
    Abstract
    This study was designed to examine the effect mental imagery had on comprehension on poetry, prose and content area reading, and to develop one strategy to teach mental imagery. Fifty-three sixth graders from a rural, middle public school in Western New York Stat participated in a mental imagery treatment program. The program was designed to determine if mental imagery was effective in significantly increasing the comprehension scores of the participants. The pre-treatment and post-treatment comprehension tests consisted of questions which tested the five targeted areas: (1) detail, (2) finding the main idea, (3) comparison/contrast, (4) sequence, and (5) recall. To best determine the students’ comprehension of the test, a short answer format was utilized. The treatment consistent of six hours of instruction to be spread over six weeks divided up into 15 to 20 minute daily sessions. The treatment sessions followed an alternating pattern of researcher reading one day and students silently reading similar material the next day to take into consideration the different learning styles of the students. Reading material was selected from fiction, poems, and content area textbooks. After each time period where drawing took place, the students discussed similarities and differences in the drawings. Appropriate statistical measures (independent and dependent t tests) were used to determine the contribution of mental imagery to performance in specific targeted comprehension skills. A further informal analysis was made through the entire treatment as the researcher looked at the students’ daily drawings to determine if the individual drawings were accurate representative pictures of that day’s text. Three of the four null hypotheses were retained. There was no statistical significant difference in the posttest means. The results were inconclusive as far as recommending a mental imagery treatment over a traditional reading program. There was no statistical significant difference, therefore, no educational performance. Further research is needed: to develop tests to determine the ability to use mental imagery, to determine the necessary length of a mental imagery treatment, to discover for whom the imagery works best, and under what environmental conditions imagery activities are best received.
    Collections
    Education and Human Development Master's Theses

    entitlement

     

    DSpace software (copyright © 2002 - 2023)  DuraSpace
    Quick Guide | Contact Us
    Open Repository is a service operated by 
    Atmire NV
     

    Export search results

    The export option will allow you to export the current search results of the entered query to a file. Different formats are available for download. To export the items, click on the button corresponding with the preferred download format.

    By default, clicking on the export buttons will result in a download of the allowed maximum amount of items.

    To select a subset of the search results, click "Selective Export" button and make a selection of the items you want to export. The amount of items that can be exported at once is similarly restricted as the full export.

    After making a selection, click one of the export format buttons. The amount of items that will be exported is indicated in the bubble next to export format.