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Rummler, Roy L. – Executive Educator, 1988
Recognizing the effect of learning styles can lead one to modify approaches in order to communicate more effectively. Administering and discussing a learning style assessment between school boards and administration will help everybody understand the sources of some past problems and avoid future ones. (MLF)
Descriptors: Board Administrator Relationship, Cognitive Style, Communication Problems, Elementary Secondary Education
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Loper, Sue – Educational Leadership, 1989
A teacher reports on helpful advice she received from a colleague when she started teaching: to teach students in the cognitive mode in which they learn best (auditory, visual, kinesthetic, or tactile). (TE)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Dimensional Preference, Diversity (Student), Elementary Secondary Education
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Dunn, Rita; And Others – Educational Leadership, 1989
A number of studies conducted during the last decade have found that students' achievement increases when teaching methods match their learning styles--biological and developmental characteristics that affect how they learn. Correlational studies and experimental research studies are reviewed on instructional environments, perceptual preferences,…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Style, Elementary Secondary Education
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Riding, Richard; Caine, Tracey – Educational Psychology: An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology, 1993
Reports on a preliminary study of cognitive style and performance of 182 secondary students on the British General Certificate of Secondary Education. Finds that students who tested at an intermediate position on both dimensions of the Wholist-Analytic cognitive style measure did best on the test. (CFR)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Cognitive Style, Cognitive Tests, Educational Assessment
CAUSE/EFFECT, 1998
In an interview, Lucinda Roy, a professor of English at Virginia Tech who teaches online courses in creative writing, the civil rights movement, and literature, discusses the risks and dynamics of this style of teaching and the need to maintain some personal interaction with students. She notes that technology liberates learners, giving them a…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Communications, Computer Networks, Educational Innovation