PROMOTION TYPES OF INDUCTIVE AND SPATIAL REPRESENTATION IN LEARNING-DISABLED CHILDREN - A MULTISAMPLE CFA

In a transfer experiment 30 11-13 year old learning disabled children attending a school for special education in Cologne were trained with teaching programs to improve their test-intelligence (inductive thinki ng) and their spatial conceptualizational abilities (two- and threedim ensional). It was shown that a program of inductive thinking following Klauer (1989) transfers across activity domains to other subjects. Co mputerized training focused only on spatial imagination was shown, sec ondly, to improve only spatial conceptual performance to specific subj ects. Based on a three-sample configural frequency analysis (CFA; Lien ert, 1988; von Eye, 1990), a Transfer-Metatype was discovered which co nsisted of a patterned combination of 3 transfer-types. The existence of this Transfer-Metatype is supported by combining independent tests of the same population of learning disabled children (see von Eye, Lie nert und Wertheimer, 1991). So, differential-psychological information s for practical trainings can be specified.