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Gurzynski-Weiss, Laura, Ed. – Language Learning & Language Teaching, 2020
This book examines the role of interlocutors and their individual differences (IDs) in second language (L2) development from four theoretical lenses: the cognitive-interactionist approach, sociocultural theory, the variationist approach, and complex dynamic systems theory. A theoretical overview to each approach is written by a preeminent scholar…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Sociocultural Patterns
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Rayner, Stephen – Learning and Individual Differences, 2011
This paper identifies the need for a deliberate approach to theory building in the context of researching cognitive and learning style differences in human performance. A case for paradigm shift and a focus upon research epistemology is presented, building upon a recent critique of style research. A proposal for creating paradigm shift is made,…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Cognitive Style, Models, Research Methodology
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Cropper, Carolyn – Gifted Child Today Magazine, 1994
This study examined learning styles in 137 high ability fourth-grade students. All students were administered two learning styles inventories. Characteristics of students with the following learning styles are summarized: auditory language, visual language, auditory numerical, visual numerical, tactile concrete, individual learning, group…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Gifted, Individual Differences, Individualized Instruction
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Desmedt, Ella; Valcke, Martin – Educational Psychology, 2004
Educationists and researchers who consider the use of the learning style concept to address individual differences in learning are often daunted by the multitude of definitions, models, and instruments. It is difficult to make an informed choice. The confusion with cognitive style, a term often used as a synonym, makes it even more complicated.…
Descriptors: Research, Literature Reviews, Citation Analysis, Learning Modalities
Curry, Lynn – 1983
In; the past 3 years there has been a resurgence of interest in learning styles as applied to education generally and to professions education in particular. For all this activity there are difficulties preventing significant progress. Chief among these is the bewildering confusion of definitions surrounding learning style conceptualization, and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Definitions, Individual Differences, Learning Theories
Roy, Debdulal Dutta – Creativity Research Journal, 1996
Comparison of 51 artists and 51 nonartists in India found three personality factors (introversion, independence, and tender-mindedness) which, related to working style and creative production of artists, could best differentiate artists from nonartists. These could be predicted from seven other personality factors. (DB)
Descriptors: Artists, Cognitive Style, Creativity, Foreign Countries
Wilson, Dawn K.; And Others – 1985
Recent research in persuasion shows that while message recipients often use little cognitive effort when assessing message validity, they may instead rely on a heuristic processing strategy. This study used a priming-like paradigm to manipulate the reliability that subjects apply to the heuristic "message length implies message strength." Subjects…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Heuristics, Individual Differences
Stoltenberg, Cal D.; And Others – 1985
The role of affect in counseling has been examined from several orientations. The depth of processing model views the efficiency of information processing as a function of the extent to which the information is processed. The notion of cognitive processing capacity states that processing information at deeper levels engages more of one's limited…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Client Characteristics (Human Services), Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style
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Wilkinson, William K.; Maxwell, Susanna – Research in Higher Education, 1991
Twenty-two college students from each of three different epistemological groups--dualistic, multiplistic, and relativistic--completed both a syllogism and ink blot problem-solving task. Findings indicated that the three epistemological groups reliably differed in how they mentally organized the ink blot stimuli but not the syllogism problems.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, College Students, Epistemology
Federico, Pat-Anthony – 1984
Visual, auditory, and bimodal event-related potentials were recorded from 50 males, and lateral asymmetry indices were derived. Eleven psychometric tests of different cognitive attributes were also administered to them. This area of research has been labeled aptitude-treatment-interaction (ATI). The emphasis of ATI research is on identification of…
Descriptors: Adults, Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Brain, Cerebral Dominance
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Vihman, Marilyn May; Greenlee, Mel – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1987
The persistence of individual differences in phonological development of 10 normally developing children observed at age one and again at age three was studied. The children differed considerably in rate of vocabulary acquisition and relative phonological maturity and also in their general approach to learning. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Early Childhood Education, Individual Differences, Longitudinal Studies
Reiff, Judith C. – 1984
Matching teaching strategies and classroom environment to students' learning preferences has been found to be related to students' self-concept and achievement. By identifying the learning and reading style of each student, the teacher will increase the youngster's chances of being successful, thus having a positive effect on the child's…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Individual Differences, Primary Education, Reading Achievement
Van Blerkom, Malcolm L. – 1985
The field dependent-independent cognitive style has been noted by researchers to be related to mathematical achievement. Researchers have also noted a relationship between field dependence and measures of intelligence, and between sex and mathematical achievement. A multiple regression framework was used to examine the effects of field dependence,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, College Students, Field Dependence Independence, Higher Education
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Rush, G. Michael; Moore, David M. – Educational Psychology: An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology, 1991
Presents study results suggesting some malleability in learning strategies that flow from cognitive style. Examines the effects and practicability of restructuring training as a means of addressing individual learner differences. Reports that training enhanced performance on two dependent measures tasks. Concludes that field-dependent learners…
Descriptors: Cognitive Restructuring, Cognitive Structures, Cognitive Style, Educational Research
Banas, Norma – 1993
This book is intended to assist in using the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence-Revised (WPPSI-R) and the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Third Edition as tools for identifying a child's strengths and weaknesses for the purpose of improving academic and behavioral functioning. The first chapter focuses on using the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Diagnostic Teaching, Individual Differences, Intelligence Tests
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