One hundred seventy gifted and average junior high students were administered the Learning Style Inventory (LSI) to identify how students prefer to learn. Gifted Ss were more persistent, tolerated the presence of sound, and preferred learning alone to a greater extent than average Ss. (CL)

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…