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Stensrud, Robert; Stensrud, Kay – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1983
The learning-style preferences of 95 public school teachers were assessed through the Barbe and Swassing Checklist of Observable Modality Strength Characteristics. For their own learning and teaching, teachers preferred the visual modality and least preferred the kinesthetic, suggesting that children may be aided or handicapped by teacher's…
Descriptors: Adults, Check Lists, Cognitive Style, Elementary Secondary Education
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Nichols, D. R. – Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 1990
Natural history facts and concepts were presented to 160 multiaged individuals through tactual and/or visual interpretive stations along a nature trail. Individuals were tested to indicate knowledge retention after the trail experience. Visual, tactual, and visual/tactual approaches proved to be equally effective treatments in most cases.…
Descriptors: Adults, Environmental Interpretation, Higher Education, Intermediate Grades
Gunawardena, Charlotte N.; Boverie, Patricia E. – 1993
The interaction of adult learning styles and the media, methods of instruction, and group functioning in a distance learning class using audiographics and computer-mediated communication was studied and compared with similar interaction in non-equivalent traditional classes. One graduate class in theory and practice of distance education, taught…
Descriptors: Adults, Analysis of Variance, Cognitive Style, Computer Assisted Instruction