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Cognitive Learning Styles and Academic Performance in Two Postsecondary Computer Application Courses.
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Ross, Jonathan L.; Drysdale, Maureen T. B.; Schultz, Robert A. – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2001
Investigated effects of cognitive learning style on academic performance in two university computer applications courses. Discusses use of the Gregorc Style Delineator to collect learning style information over a four-year period. Results indicated a significant effect of learning style on academic performance, and that sequential learners…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Style, Computer Science Education, Higher Education
Learning Styles of Marketing Majors.
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Stewart, Karen L.; Felicetti, Linda A. – Educational Research Quarterly, 1992
Results from a Gregorc Style Delineator completed by 99 underclass business majors, 65 upperclass business majors in an area other than marketing, and 101 marketing majors show that the dominant learning styles for upperdivision marketing students were Concrete Sequential and Abstract Random. Implications for instruction are discussed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Business Education, Cognitive Style, College Students, Higher Education
Web-Based Learning Interaction and Learning Styles.
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Sabry, Khaled; Baldwin, Lynne – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2003
Reports a study exploring the learning styles and perceptions of undergraduate and postgraduate students at Brunel University (United Kingdom) in relation to using the Web for learning. Explores the sequential/global learning style dimension in relation to three categories of Web-based interaction: learner-tutor, learner-leaner, and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Foreign Countries, Global Approach, Higher Education
Subsumption Versus Educational Set: Implications for Sequencing of Instructional Materials
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McDade, Claudia E. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1978
Educational psychology undergraduates were taught in alternating instructional sequences; one sequence was a conceptually oriented lecture followed by a factually oriented self-study, the other sequence was a factual self-study followed by a conceptual lecture. Results more closely supported the predictions derived from the educational set…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Comparative Analysis, Concept Formation, Deduction
Enhancement of Achievement and Attitudes through Individualized Learning-style Presentations of Two Allied Health Courses.
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Miller, Joyce A. – Journal of Allied Health, 1998
Classes in anatomy and sonography were both taught using lectures and Programmed Learning Sequence (PLS) in book format. Sonography students also used PLS in multimedia. Achievement was higher with PLS than lecture; book PLS was more effective than multimedia; and there was a significant correlation between learning-style preferences and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Allied Health Occupations Education, Attitude Change, Cognitive Style
Analyses and Comparisons of Cognitive Learning Preferences among Airline Pilots, Corporate Pilots, and Aviation Students.
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Quilty, Stephen M. – Journal of Air Transportation World Wide, 1999
Comparison of research with 28 first/second-year and 52 third/fourth-year aviation students, 671 corporate pilots and 1990 airline pilots showed that pilots strongly preferred sequential and bilateral cognitive processing. Because these styles are reflected in aviation teaching methods, relational learners are effectively screened out of pilot…
Descriptors: Adults, Aircraft Pilots, Aviation Education, Brain Hemisphere Functions
Quality Reform: Personality Type, Preferred Learning Style and Majors in a Business School
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Fallan, Lars – Quality in Higher Education, 2006
The quality reform of higher education in Norway has generally recommended a substitution of classroom teaching with more active forms of learning in higher education. This study reveals that ignoring the student's personality type may be in conflict with the purpose of the reform. The student's personality type affects both the most effective…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Majors (Students), Higher Education
Cognition and Learner Control: A Literature Review, 1977-1988.
Steinberg, Esther R. – Journal of Computer-Based Instruction, 1989
Presents literature review of research studies that focused on students' learning processes and learner control of instruction. Highlights include computer-assisted instruction; information processing strategies; metacognitive skills; adaptive control; branching; sequence of instruction; feedback; learning strategies; locus of control; and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Branching, Cognitive Style, Computer Assisted Instruction