Abstract:
Purpose of the study. The purposes of this study was to examine an interaction of information locations in picture and cognitive styles in recalling of Mathayom Suksa three students. The subjects were three hundred and thirty-three Mathayom Suksa three students of Sriracha School, Cholburi Province, in the academic year of 1986. The cognitive styles of the subjects were determined by the Group Embedded Figures Test. Seventy-five subjects were randomly selected from each of the three cognitive styles groups : labeling field independence, the middle group, and field dependence. The subjects in each group, then, were randomly divided into five sub-groups for five treatments of recalling information located in pictures. The material used in this study were three black and white slides. Each slide was divided into five equal areas : upper left, upper right, lower left, lower right and the center. Each location contained seven geometric forms. The presentation time for each slide was 35 seconds. The subjects were allowed to have 1 minute to recall the information. They were asked to draw the geometric forms on an answer sheet provided, which contained the same five equal areas. The Shipley Test was administered in every process in order to reduce treatment effects for 10 minutes the data obtained was analysed by a two-way analysis of variance. The pairwise differences were tested by Newman-Keuls Method. The results of the study were as followed : 1. Different picture locations can significantly bring about different recalls to students at the .05 level of confidence. 2. Students with different cognitive styles recall information in the pictures differently at the .05 level of confidence. 3. There was no statistical significant interaction between recalling information in the five locations and cognitive styles.