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Tucker, Richard – Higher Education Research and Development, 2009
This paper investigates the relationship between learning style, as determined by Kolb's Learning Style Inventory, age and one measure of academic performance in design assignments for two cohorts of first- and third-year architecture students. The paper focuses on the results of a cross-curriculum learning style survey conducted as part of a…
Descriptors: Assignments, Learning Problems, Cognitive Style, Academic Achievement
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Reiff, Judith C. – Psychology: A Quarterly Journal of Human Behavior, 1986
Children were administered the Learning Style Inventory. Analysis revealed that children across sex, grade, and race had a majority of no preferences for the variables considered. The auditory approach was the least preferred learning mode by all groups. Specific diagnosis concerning modality strengths will contribute to a youngster's success in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
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Bauer, Elizabeth – Clearing House, 1987
Summarizes the results of a project to make a class of learning disabled ninth graders aware of their individual learning styles. This seemed to increase their self-esteem and thus they worked according to their strengths and their grades improved. (NKA)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Educational Research, Grade 9
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Castro, Obdulia; Peck, Veronica – Foreign Language Annals, 2005
In order to identify what other elements besides linguistic deficits could be playing a role in foreign language learning difficulties, the Kolb Learning Styles Inventory was administered to students enrolled in regular and modified Spanish classes at a major U.S. university. Preliminary results gathered as part of a longitudinal study on learning…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Second Language Learning, Learning Problems, Spanish