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Effect of Learning Styles on Prospective Teachers' Self-Regulated Learning Skills
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Dincol-Ozgur, Sinem – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2018
The aim of this study was to determine the learning styles of prospective chemistry and science teachers, and to examine the effects of different learning styles on their self-regulated learning skills. The survey method which is one of the quantitative research methods was used in this study. A total of 251 prospective chemistry and science…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Learning Strategies, Chemistry, Science Teachers
Learning Styles and Metacognitive Awareness: How They Affect the L2 Listening Process of At-Risk Students in a Modified Foreign Language Program (MFLP)
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Corbitt, William Keith – Dimension, 2017
Research on the acquisition of foreign languages by at-risk students has primarily focused on the Linguistic Coding Deficit Hypothesis (Horwitz, 2000). Recently, there has been a growing discussion regarding the effects of learning style rigidity (Castro, 2006; Castro and Peck, 2005; Corbitt, 2011; Sparks, 2006) and metacognitive awareness…
Descriptors: Metacognition, At Risk Students, Cognitive Style, Linguistic Theory
Styles, Strategies & Tasks: Are They Related?
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Parnrod, Urarat; Darasawang, Pornapit; Singhasiri, Wareesiri – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2014
This qualitative study aims at investigating the relationship among cognitive styles, learning strategies and task. In order to determine the dominant cognitive styles of the subjects, questionnaires designed by Kolb (2005) were distributed to 778 engineering students. From the data analysis, it was found that two cognitive…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Cognitive Style, Correlation, Learning Strategies
Do Ten-Year-Old Children in Sweden Know How They Learn? A Study of How Young Students Believe They Learn Compared to Their Learning Styles Preferences
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Boström, Lena – International Education Studies, 2012
Students' individual learning strategies have been identified as important skills in order to succeed in school as well as important for lifelong learning. The Swedish steering documents are permeated by an epistemological and a methodological variation based on the individual student's learning. Learning how to learn has been identified by the EU…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Cognitive Style, Preferences
Re-Conceptualizing the Organizing Circumstance of Learning
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Spear Ellinwood, Karen Courtenay – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This study explores the web-navigation practices of adult learners in higher education and re-conceptualizes the concept of the organizing circumstance of self-managed learning, originated by Spear and Mocker (1984). The theoretical framework draws on funds of knowledge theory from a cultural historical perspective and elaborates a Vygotskian…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Learning Experience, Internet
Inducing Students To Think about Their Learning: Four Approaches.
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Hettich, Paul I. – 1993
Instructors seeking to practice learner-centered principles of teaching have several tools at their disposal. This paper summarizes four approaches to help students become more aware of their own psychological functioning and how it shapes their learning. Journal writing induces students to reflect and connect course concepts to past or present…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education, Hidden Curriculum