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Asogwa, Uche Donatus; Onwuneme, Chinonye Virginia; Ogbonna, Samuel C.; Nkanu, Celestine Unoh; Eze, Ben; Mohammad, Abdullahi – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2022
Learners have their dominant intelligence which gave rise to the different learning styles, a dominant mode of information reception, processing, and storage. The study will determine the extent each learner group perceives the use of Facebook for learning as useful and easy to use. 213 students purposively sampled from five departments which…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Preferences, Web 2.0 Technologies, Instructional Improvement
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Incik, Eda Yalçin – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2020
The aim of this study is to investigate the innovativeness characteristics and learning styles of the preservice teachers in terms of gender and department variables and to determine whether the characteristics of innovativeness differ significantly according to their learning styles. In the study descriptive method was used in the survey model.…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Cognitive Style, Individual Characteristics, Public Colleges
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Aksoy, Esra; Narli, Serkan; Aksoy, Mehmet Akif – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2018
In the identification process, there may be gifted students who may be unnoticed or students who are misdiagnosed and are disappointed. In this context, this study is a step that may solve these two problems about the identification of mathematically gifted students with the help of data mining, which is data analysis methodology that has been…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Talent Identification, Data Collection, Mathematics Instruction
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Konert, Johannes; Gutjahr, Michael; Göbel, Stefan; Steinmetz, Ralf – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2014
For adaptation and personalization of game play sophisticated player models and learner models are used in game-based learning environments. Thus, the game flow can be optimized to increase efficiency and effectiveness of gaming and learning in parallel. In the field of gaming still the Bartle model is commonly used due to its simplicity and good…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Grade 9, Games
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Derakhshan, Ali; Shakki, Farzaneh – SAGE Open, 2018
It is also hypothesized that proficiency level may have a voice with respect to learning styles. Therefore, to throw light on this issue, the present investigation targeted the relationship between Iranian English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners' learning styles and their levels of proficiency at Golestan University, Gorgan, Iran. To this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Proficiency, English (Second Language), College Students
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Lee, Chen Kang; Sidhu, Manjit Singh – Educational Technology & Society, 2015
Engineering educators have been increasingly taking the learning style theories into serious consideration as part of their efforts to enhance the teaching and learning in engineering. This paper presents a research study to investigate the learning style preference of the mechanical engineering students in Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN),…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Cognitive Style, Measures (Individuals), Preferences
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Mehigan, Tracey J.; Pitt, Ian – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2012
Adaptive learning systems tailor content delivery to meet specific needs of the individual for improved learning-outcomes. Learning-styles and personalities are usually determined through the completion of questionnaires. There are a number of models available for this purpose including the Myer-Briggs Model (MBTI), the Big Five Model, and the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Teaching Methods, Educational Games, Telecommunications
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Zhan, Ginny Q.; Moodie, Douglas R.; Sun, Yanmin; Wang, Bailing – Journal of Learning in Higher Education, 2013
This research project explores learning styles of college students in the US and China. The Grasha-Reichmann Student Learning Style Scale, designed to measure how college students view their learning, was used as the main instrument for the current study. A total of 511 college students, 274 from the US and 237 from China, participated in this…
Descriptors: College Students, Cognitive Style, Foreign Countries, Gender Differences
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Al-Dujaily, Amal; Kim, Jieun; Ryu, Hokyoung – Educational Technology & Society, 2013
A concern of computer-based learning system design is how to accommodate learners' individual differences during learning activities. Previous research suggests that adaptive e-learning systems can effectively address such individual differences and, consequently, they enable more directed tutoring via computer-assisted instruction. In this paper,…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Extraversion Introversion, Individual Differences, Learning Activities
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Erton, Ismail – Hacettepe University Journal of Education, 2010
The purpose of this paper is to show that the reflections of different personality types can be observed in students' developing different learning styles for themselves. It is hypothesized that personality may be a dominant factor in achieving the educational goals through several learning styles in foreign language achievement. To clarify this…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Extraversion Introversion, Cognitive Style, Second Language Learning
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Sharp, John G.; Bowker, Rob; Byrne, Jenny – Research Papers in Education, 2008
Developments within education, psychology and the neurosciences have shed a great deal of light on how we learn while, at the same time, confirming for us all that learning is a profoundly complex process and far from understood. Against this background, and in this position article, we consider the recent rise in interest in the concept of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Foreign Countries, Learning Processes, Visual Perception