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Altintas, Sedat; Görgen, Izzet – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2018
The main purpose of the study is to investigate the effects of prospective teachers' cognitive styles on learning approaches. It is aimed to define whether exist significance differences between defining prospective teachers' cognitive styles and learning approaches and demographic variables within the scope of the mean purpose. The study,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Preservice Teachers, Gender Differences, Academic Achievement
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Pi-Sui-Hsu; Dwyer, Francis – International Journal of Instructional Media, 2004
Adjunct questions inserted in text requires that an individual is retrieving known concepts and constructing the new meaning. In this process, the individual has to recall the knowledge just studied and locate exactly the location of the information. This study attempts to examine the (a) instructional effects of varied types of adjunct questions…
Descriptors: College Students, Cognitive Style, Hypermedia, Instructional Materials
Simpson, F. Morgan; And Others – 1994
The cognitive styles of Education majors at a southern university were examined over a 5-year period. The Group Embedded Figures Test (GEFT) was administered to 537 students in an introductory education course. This test identifies field-dependent (FD) and field-independent (FI) learning styles. One hundred ninety-six students were retested at the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Style, Cognitive Tests, Education Majors
Shih, Ching-Chun; Ingebritsen, Tom; Pleasants, John; Flickinger, Kathleen; Brown, George – 1998
This paper reports the results of a study designed to examine how students with different learning styles functioned in World Wide Web-based courses offered by Project BIO at Iowa State University in the Fall of 1997, and to determine what factors influenced their learning. The objectives of the study were to identify: (1) the demographic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Biology, Cognitive Style, Correlation
Portis, Sarah C.; And Others – 1993
Cognitive style is an important variable that can affect the educational process in several ways. This study, a continuation of previous research, considers two learning styles--field dependent (FD) and field independent (FI). FD learners are attuned to social interaction; they favor structure, teacher direction, and feedback; and they benefit…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Freshmen, College Seniors, Education Courses
Summerville, Jennifer B. – 1998
This study examined variables which may be important in the design of instructional environments adapted to accommodate individual differences. Purposes of the study were: (1) to determine whether matching or mismatching subjects with their tendency toward field dependence or field independence had any effect on achievement in a hypermedia…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Style, Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Environment