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Wood, Gail – 1998
This book is designed to help the student learn how to study effectively. The focus is on finding one's own learning style and working with it to improve studying and learning. The following chapters are included: (1) "Getting Started"; (2) "Discovering How You Learn"; (3) "Looking and Listening"; (4) "Making Images, Making Order, Making Sense";…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Higher Education, Learning Strategies, Secondary Education
Keefe, James W.; And Others – 1986
This 126-item test, the Learning Style Profile, was designed to assess 23 scales involving learners' cognitive skills, as well as emotional and environmental study preferences such as noise and temperature. It contains both verbal and pictorial items. The test was designed for sixth- through twelfth-grade students and has a readability level…
Descriptors: Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Cognitive Tests
Fleet, Joan; And Others – 1987
This manual was written to help college students become better students and more successful learners. The goals of the book are to raise awareness of, and interest in, the learning process generally; increase each student's awareness of her/himself as a learner; introduce specific strategies for more effective learning; suggest that each student…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, College Students, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Goetz, Susan Gibbs – Scarecrow Press, 2007
"Science for Girls: Successful Classroom Strategies" looks at how girls learn, beginning with the time they are born through both the informal and formal education process. In the author's current role as professor of science education, Dr. Goetz has surveyed hundreds of female elementary education majors in their junior and senior year of…
Descriptors: Education Majors, Single Sex Schools, Elementary Education, Females
Harvey, Virginia Smith; Chickie-Wolfe, Louise A.; Eads, James B. – Guilford Publications, 2007
Accessible, practical, and empowering, this book gives school professionals the tools to put students in charge of their own learning. Going beyond traditional "study skills" guides that focus on the mechanics of homework completion and test taking, the authors address the underlying psychological factors that influence academic success and…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Lifelong Learning, Academic Achievement, Psychological Characteristics
Cotton, Kathleen – 1998
This booklet is aimed at school students desiring to improve their lifelong learning skills. Part 1 is a checklist to help students determine their preferred learning styles, including sense modalities (reading, listening, viewing pictures or diagrams, touching, or moving) and best learning conditions (preferred sounds, lighting, temperature,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Guidelines, Habit Formation, High Schools

Webb, Gertrude M. – 1991
This document presents a series of seven notebooks written to assist students at risk of becoming school dropouts due to learning problems. The notebooks explain what learning is, the student's role in the learning process, tools available to learners, how a particular student may learn best, which areas of learning need to be strengthened, and…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Cognitive Style, Dropout Prevention, High Risk Students
Van Deur, Penny – International Education Journal, 2004
Gifted students are often described in the literature as being self-regulated, self-directed learners. Ten gifted primary students were interviewed in order to clarify the concept of self-directed learning in students of primary age. The students provided information on their knowledge of self-directed learning, explanations of the self-directed…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Academically Gifted, Learning Strategies, Learning Processes
Brown, H. Douglas – 1991
Intended as a guide for learners of a second language, the book suggests creative, positive steps the individual learner can take to improve his chances of success. The first chapter looks at what is involved in learning a second language and suggests that the individual can take control of the learning process. The second and third chapters…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Style, Course Selection (Students), Cultural Awareness
Hayes, Marnell L. – 1994
Intended for students with learning disabilities, this new edition is intended to offer students practical suggestions on how to cope with their disability. This edition has added a chapter about Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and ADD with Hyperactivity, as well as glossary of terms. Individual chapters answer the following questions students…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Cognitive Style, Coping, Elementary Secondary Education
Crane, Anne; And Others – 1994
This paper contains a variety of instructional strategies and a review of research related to different learning styles. A learning styles inventory, style profiles, and information regarding some types of activities for students with different learning styles are included. Two sample lesson plans introduce and describe the inductive learning…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Grade 7, Junior High School Students
Brown, H. Douglas – 2002
This book aims to empower students and teachers to take a fresh look at the learning process. It guides students to become aware of their learning styles and to develop strategies to make their language learning successful. The book includes the following features: questionnaires in every chapter to help learners assess their learning styles;…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Charts, Cognitive Style
Siegel, Janna; Lester, Shaun E. – 1994
Understanding how they learn best is important for beginning and returning college students. This self-awareness can assist students in developing their classroom learning, study skills, and instructional habits throughout their college careers. For this reason, a quick, inexpensive learning style inventory appropriate for college populations was…
Descriptors: Aural Learning, Cognitive Style, College Students, Feedback

Brumfield, Emalou – Arithmetic Teacher, 1994
Focuses on student organization, preparation, and presentation of simple foods (beverage, brownies, sloppy-joe sandwiches) as a way to apply various mathematical concepts, with problem-solving techniques being central to almost all the activities. Includes reproducible student worksheets. (MKR)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Cooperative Learning, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics
Grala, Maria; And Others – 1987
A handbook for Peace Corps volunteers gives ideas and suggestions for improving second language learning. Chapter one answers some of the most common questions about learning foreign languages, including the best age and means for language learning, avoiding mistakes, dealing with the inability to understand a message, the time needed to master…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Communication Apprehension, Diaries, Discovery Learning
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