The purpose of this study was to explore the relationships between Latino students' learning styles and their language spoken at home. Results of the study indicated that students who spoke Spanish at home had higher means in the Active Experimentation modality of learning (M = 31.38, SD = 5.70) than students who spoke English (M = 28.08,…

Describes the results of a study of graduate students that investigated the relationship between the dimensions of library anxiety and learning-modality preferences by using a multivariate analysis and canonical correlation analysis. Use of the Library Anxiety Scale and the Productivity Environmental Preference Survey are also described.…

Finds that, among 200 Alaskan high school seniors completing the Productivity Environmental Preference Survey (PEPS), natives and non-natives differed significantly from each other and from the PEPS norm group on selected aspects of learning styles. Presents pedagogical recommendations for Alaskan students. Contains 28 references. (SV)

This study profiled the preferred productivity and learning style preferences of 63 off-campus and 43 on-campus distance education students enrolled at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, during Spring 1995. Using the Productivity Environmental Preference Survey (PEPS), it found no overall differences between the productivity and…

At Queensborough Community College, the City University of New York, 60% of incoming freshmen were placed into remedial-writing classes in 2001, and 43.9% of these incoming freshmen were from foreign, non-English speaking countries. Before these students could advance into credit courses, they were required to pass both their remedial-writing…