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Direct linkManolis, Chris; Burns, David J.; Assudani, Rashmi; Chinta, Ravi – Learning and Individual Differences, 2013
To understand experiential learning, many have reiterated the need to be able to identify students' learning styles. Kolb's Learning Style Model is the most widely accepted learning style model and has received a substantial amount of empirical support. Kolb's Learning Style Inventory (LSI), although one of the most widely utilized instruments to…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Teaching Methods, Cognitive Style, Computer Science
Pool, Lorraine Dacre; Qualter, Pamela – Learning and Individual Differences, 2012
Emotional intelligence continues to receive a substantial amount of attention from researchers who argue that it is an important predictor of health, wellbeing and in particular, work-related outcomes. Emotional self-efficacy, which is concerned with beliefs in one's emotional functioning capabilities, has recently been shown to be important in…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Emotional Intelligence, Intervention, Self Efficacy
Dosseville, Fabrice; Laborde, Sylvain; Scelles, Nicolas – Learning and Individual Differences, 2012
We investigated the influence of music during learning on the academic performance of undergraduate students, and more particularly the influence of affects induced by music. Altogether 249 students were involved in the study, divided into a control group and an experimental group. Both groups attended the same videotaped lecture, with the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Classical Music, Lecture Method, Classroom Environment
McCune, Velda; Entwistle, Noel – Learning and Individual Differences, 2011
This article discusses the need, in 21st century university education, to encourage a "will to learn" in students, and explores its meaning using a variety of empirical evidence. It draws on previous studies related to academic understanding to introduce the idea of a "disposition to understand for oneself" and to consider how teaching-learning…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes
Evans, Carol; Waring, Michael – Learning and Individual Differences, 2011
The enhancement of assessment feedback is an international concern. This study is unique in its exploration of the nature of the relationship between student teachers' assessment feedback preferences, cognitive styles and gender, with a view to informing the development of assessment feedback practices and course design within initial teacher…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Student Teachers, Gender Differences, Validity
Kleitman, Sabina; Gibson, Jennifer – Learning and Individual Differences, 2011
Metacognition is an integral component of a self-regulated approach to learning. The present study examined the relationships between academic self-efficacy and perceptions of one's own competence in memory and reasoning abilities, and their role in predicting the Self-confidence trait. The study also aimed to determine the role of key classroom…
Descriptors: College Students, Self Efficacy, Goal Orientation, Educational Practices
Lindquist, Sophie I.; McLean, John P. – Learning and Individual Differences, 2011
The experience of daydreaming is familiar to all, yet daydreaming and its correlates in an educational context have yet to be adequately explored. This study investigated academic and other potential correlates of task-unrelated images and thoughts (TUITs) during lectures. 463 undergraduate psychology students participated across three lecture…
Descriptors: Psychology, Educational Environment, Lecture Method, Imagination
Kappe, F. R.; Boekholt, L.; den Rooyen, C.; Van der Flier, H. – Learning and Individual Differences, 2009
Multiple and specific learning criteria were used to examine the predictive validity of the Learning Style Questionnaire (LSQ). Ninety-nine students in a college of higher learning in The Netherlands participated in a naturally occurring field study. The students were categorized into one of four LSQ dimensions, namely, Activists, Theorists,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Academic Achievement, Predictive Validity, Criteria
Pae, Tae-Il; Shin, Sang-Keun – Learning and Individual Differences, 2011
The purpose of the present study was to examine the effects of differential instructional methods on the relationships between intrinsic and extrinsic motivations (IM and EM, respectively), self-confidence, motivation, and English as a foreign language (EFL) achievement for a sample of Korean university students and their teachers. To this end,…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, English (Second Language), Teaching Methods, Self Concept
Swami, Viren; Furnham, Adrian; Maakip, Ismail; Ahmad, Sharani; Hudani, Nurul; Voo, Peter S. K.; Christopher, Andrew N.; Garwood, Jeanette – Learning and Individual Differences, 2007
This study examined students' preferences for lecturers' personalities on three continents. Two-hundred and 35 university students in Malaysia, 347 university students in Britain and 139 university students in the United States provided ratings of 30 desirable and undesirable lecturer trait characteristics, which were coded into an internally…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, College Students, Teacher Characteristics
Jeffrey, Lynn M. – Learning and Individual Differences, 2009
As teachers struggle to meet the needs of a highly diverse student body, technology holds out the promise of a solution. However, first the nature and scope of differences between students has to be identified. This study (n = 1811) takes a comprehensive approach, selecting differences from each stage in the learning process. These were termed…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Teacher Collaboration, Cooperation, Factor Analysis
Summers, Jessica J.; Svinicki, Marilla D. – Learning and Individual Differences, 2007
The purpose of this research was to demonstrate an empirical relationship between classroom community and students' achievement goals in higher education, and to offer a possible explanation for differences in this relationship for cooperative and non-cooperative classrooms. Structural equation modeling techniques revealed that students'…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Attitudes, Structural Equation Models, Cooperative Learning
