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Price, Gary E.; And Others – 1977
This paper summarizes the research on learning style based on responses to the Learning Style Inventory by 1,836 students in grades 1 through 12. Reliability analyses are included for each sub-scale for males and females based on factors determined by factor and content analysis. The intercorrelations are included for males and females within…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education, Factor Analysis

Reiff, Judith C. – Psychology: A Quarterly Journal of Human Behavior, 1986
Children were administered the Learning Style Inventory. Analysis revealed that children across sex, grade, and race had a majority of no preferences for the variables considered. The auditory approach was the least preferred learning mode by all groups. Specific diagnosis concerning modality strengths will contribute to a youngster's success in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Knight, Carol Bugg – 1990
The purpose of this study was to devise an instructional model accommodating students' learning styles in the following areas: sound, light, temperature, design, and mobility. Specifically, this study determined if students in an experimental group with environmental accommodations to their preferred modes of learning differed from students in a…
Descriptors: Acoustical Environment, Classroom Environment, Cognitive Style, Elementary School Students
Dunn, Rita; And Others – 1983
Previous research has examined whether manipulation of one environmental element, such as sound, significantly affected group norms for achievement. This investigation examined the relation of preferred and actual acoustic environment on reading performance. Subjects were 32 male and 32 female sixth-graders from a suburban school in New York State…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Biological Influences, Classroom Environment, Cognitive Style