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McCabe, Deborah – Academic Therapy, 1985
The article describes a multi-modal linguistic approach which draws on the existence of student's preferred language or linguistic style corresponding to their preferred learning style. (CL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Modalities
Boozer, Bernard; Anderson, Audrey – 1977
In order to assist the accountability demands of current educational policy, this report recommends the employment of a cognitive style mapping inventory to determine what each individual may achieve in learning skills. It is indicated that when students were permitted to study in ways compatible with their recognized cognitive styles, achievement…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Style
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
Fielding, Elizabeth N. – 2000
Children who are bright and hard-working, yet find school a struggle, or children who can discuss things they have learned but whose written work is of surprisingly poor quality, might have learning differences that are hindering them from reaching their full potential. Some children are visual learners, others are auditory learners, and others…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Elementary Education, Learning Modalities
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Jongsma, Kathleen Stumpf – Reading Teacher, 1990
Offers a solicited response to a question about learning styles, and discusses how this information should affect planning and implementing instruction. Finds that the instructional implications of the body of research on learning styles and learning modalities are limited. (MG)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Educational Research, Learning Modalities, Learning Processes
Leaver, Betty Lou – 1997
The eight chapters of this book present tools to identify and resolve learning style conflicts. Chapter 1 discusses the philosophical foundations of education in the United States and other countries. Chapter 2 explains why identifying and accommodating learning styles is important, using case studies of unsuccessful students in real classroom…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Style, Elementary Secondary Education, Large Group Instruction
Partridge, Susan – 1983
To increase teachers' sensitivity to their students' learning styles, this paper points out some behavioral characteristics displayed by many right-hemispheric children. Additionally, the distinction between children who are either "part perceivers" or "whole perceivers" is explained. Functions of brain parts as well as several remedial,…
Descriptors: Behavior, Cerebral Dominance, Cognitive Style, Elementary Secondary Education
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Bowen, Dorothy N. – International Library Review, 1988
Describes a study that examined the cognitive styles of African students in order to propose appropriate strategies for bibliographic instruction in African colleges. The results of the cognitive tests given to students are presented, and recommendations for appropriate teaching strategies are outlined. (12 references) (CLB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Style, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries
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Dunn, Kenneth; Dunn, Rita – Educational Leadership, 1987
Challenges 15 popular beliefs held about students and optimal learning environments by citing data from studies of student learning styles. Individual learning styles vary, and academic achievement can be improved by providing flexible teaching styles and classroom environments where students can match their learning styles. Includes extensive…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Environment, Cognitive Style, Educational Research
Murphy, Linda; Della Corte, Suzanne – Special Parent/Special Child, 1989
This article discusses how to determine the learning style of a child with learning problems and how to use the information to maximize the child's potential. Assessing the child's learning style begins with close observation in a variety of settings, which provides a generalized idea of the child's behavior. This is followed up by categorizing…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Learning Disabilities
Morrison, Veronica Kraly – 1993
This packet of materials is designed to aid teachers in redesigning their courses to accommodate diverse students. The worksheets help organize information on what aspects of diversity are present in each class, what course elements can and cannot be adapted to them, and how these adaptations might be implemented. The worksheets, along with the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Cognitive Style, Curriculum Development
Keefe, James W. – 1991
Learning style is the foundation of successful teaching and teaching for thinking. The recent conceptualization of the brain as a complex system for processing and storing information can be meaningful to educators. Too many schools, however, rely on a rather mechanistic approach to learning. Future school administrators must be taught to…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, High School Students
Trujillo, Armando Lujan; Zachman, Jill M. – 1981
The central concept underlying the approach and strategies offered here is culture as process, that is, the knowledge people use in their everyday life situations. A presupposition is that all human knowledge is cultural. Conceptual patterns are identified within the learner's cognitive framework which will be of importance in teacher-learner…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Cognitive Style, Cultural Awareness, Educational Anthropology
Richardson, John G. – 1994
Three groups were surveyed to determine the preferred modes of learning of persons directly associated with cooperative extension education in North Carolina. The modes of learning stated on the questionnaires were doing, touching/feeling, smelling, tasting, seeing, hearing, and discussing. Three groups completed the questionnaire: targeted…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Style, Educational Research
Keefe, James W., Ed. – 1988
In 1986, the National Association of Secondary School Principals, with the assistance of a national task force, published the NASSP Learning Style Profile (LSP) for diagnosis of the cognitive styles, perceptual response tendencies, and instructional preferences of middle level and senior high school students. This monograph offers a short course…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Style, Cognitive Tests, Elementary Secondary Education
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