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Sinatra, Camille – Journal of Reading, Writing, and Learning Disabilities International, 1990
The article describes five diverse secondary schools with successful programs to provide responsive instruction based on individual learning styles. Schools include a school for gifted students in Minnesota, a middle school in New Jersey, and three schools in New York. (DB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Environmental Influences, Gifted, Individual Differences

Dunn, Rita; Griggs, Shirley A. – Journal of Reading, Writing, and Learning Disabilities International, 1990
This paper compares and contrasts the findings of studies on the learning styles of multicultural subgroups in the United States in terms of the categories of the Dunn and Dunn Learning Styles Model. It concludes that individual rather than group characteristics must be addressed when providing instruction--regardless of cultural or racial…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Cultural Differences, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Influences
Smith, Douglas K.; Holliday, Peter J. – 1986
The study investigates differences in learning styles as measured by the Learning Style Inventory (LSI), an instrument designed to identify sociological, emotional, environmental, and physiological factors that form an individual's learning style. The subjects for the study were a sample of fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-graders in a midwestern…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Environment, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Style

Valle, Joan Della – Journal of Reading, Writing, and Learning Disabilities International, 1990
A principal of a New York elementary school describes how implementation of a testing program to determine individual learning styles and modification of the instructional environment to meet individual learning-style needs has been received enthusiastically by teachers, parents, and students. (DB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Elementary Education, Environmental Influences, Individual Differences