Date of Award
12-1989
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Department
Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences
First Advisor
Dr. Michael Clark
Second Advisor
Dr. Nickola Nelson
Third Advisor
Dr. James Hillenbrand
Access Setting
Masters Thesis-Open Access
Abstract
This study examined the ability of fifth, eighth, and eleventh graders to complete multiple modality analogy tasks. Three groups, for a total of 201 subjects--68 fifth graders, 66 eighth graders, and 77 eleventh graders--solved word, picture, and figure analogies. A significant difference was found in the performance of the three groups, indicating that analogical processing skills increase with age. No significant difference was found between males and females on the combined analogy tasks. A significant difference was found for modality, indicating that the three sets of analogies were different in difficulty. The grade-by-modality interaction also was found to be significant, revealing that the difficulty of the three analogy tasks was experienced differentially by the grades. Post hoc analysis determined that the differences between word and picture analogies, word and figure analogies, and picture and figure analogies were significant over all grades.
Recommended Citation
Cashen, Amy Sirrae, "Analogical Processing Skills in Three Modalities in Fifth, Eighth, and Eleventh Graders" (1989). Masters Theses. 1108.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/masters_theses/1108