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Engel, A. M. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2015
The first year accounting college course is considered a gatekeeper course. If a student fails this course, it could affect their entire degree program (Duchac & Amoruso, 2012). In addition, it might preclude them from employment opportunities in the accounting profession (Pratt, 2013; Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Cognitive Style, Learning Strategies, Accounting
Brainard, Stephen R.; Ommen, Jerome L. – Community College Frontiers, 1977
Administration of the Learning Styles Inventory (LSI) to randomly selected groups of 1,769 male and 1,369 female community college students revealed statistically significant differences between males and females on 15 of the 21 LSI scales. Differences in learning preferences for structure, content, and mode of instruction, and for academic…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Community Colleges, Educational Research, Expectation
A Comparison of the Cognitive Styles of Deaf Students with the Cognitive Styles of Hearing Students.
Griffin, Thomas E. – 1976
A study involving 25 deaf students mainstreamed in a community college was conducted to investigate differences in cognitive styles between deaf and hearing students. Both normal hearing and deaf students responded to a cognitive style inventory which consisted of 216 descriptive statements with which each student assessed himself in terms of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Community Colleges, Deafness
Doherty, William A. – 2000
This study investigated three aspects of Internet-based community college classes: the distribution of learning styles of the students enrolled, student preferences for specific methods of instruction, and the relationship between student learning styles and preferences for methods of instruction. The results of the study might help educators…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Cognitive Style, Community Colleges, Distance Education
Sitz, Robert – 1995
A simulated art history textbook reading assignment was designed to examine the effects of visual information on student learning and understanding. A sample of 234 students was taken from a population of freshman/sophomore English students in a large metropolitan community college district. In phase one of the study, students took the Group…
Descriptors: Art Education, Art History, Cognitive Style, Community Colleges
Martens, Kay, Ed. – 1976
Between 1974 and 1976 the Two-Year College Development Center conducted a project to provide cognitive style information to faculty, counselors, and administrators at 21 two-year colleges in New York through a series of seminars and workshops. During 1976, the project focused on four questions identified as crucial to the application of cognitive…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Choice, Cognitive Style, Community Colleges
Rochford, Regina A. – Community College Journal, 2005
At Queensborough Community College, the City University of New York, 60% of incoming freshmen were placed into remedial-writing classes in 2001, and 43.9% of these incoming freshmen were from foreign, non-English speaking countries. Before these students could advance into credit courses, they were required to pass both their remedial-writing…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Non English Speaking, College Freshmen, Special Needs Students
Hunter, Walter E.; McCants, Louise S. – 1977
A Study of students' preferred learning styles at Sinclair Community College utilized the Learning Styles Inventory (LSI), which provides 100 discriminations within the following categories: Conditions, reflecting concern for learning situation dynamics; Content, indicating major areas of interest; Mode, showing the general modality through which…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Age Differences, Aural Learning

Ritchie, Harriette B. – 1975
A study was conducted to determine the Jungian personality types of selected groups of student and registered nurses, to identify their preferred learning styles, to ascertain the relationship between personality type and preferred learning style, and to identify the most productive learning styles for given personality types. Subjects'…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Community Colleges, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Media