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Peer reviewedOakland, Thomas; Banner, Diane; Livingston, Rita – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2000
A study investigated the learning style preferences of 214 students (ages 10-17) with visual impairments and their sighted peers. Students with visual impairments more frequently preferred practical, thinking, or organized styles. Boys with visual impairments tended to prefer extroverted styles and girls with visual impairments tended to prefer…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Intermediate Grades
Download full textFritz, Robert L. – 1992
Witkin's field-dependence cognitive style theory predicts that females are more likely to have a social or field-dependent cognitive style, whereas males will more often have an analytical or field-independent cognitive style. Data from 144 secondary marketing education students (62 males, 82 females) from three secondary schools in northern…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Females, Field Dependence Independence, High School Students
Peer reviewedField, Diane E.; Anderson, Daniel R. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1985
Five- and nine-year olds' (N=80) television viewing and program recall in response to learning instructions were examined. Instructions affected visual-emphasis program segments only; visual orientation and cued recall increased in younger children; and free recall and cued recall were enhanced in older children. (Author/BS)
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Age Differences, Attention, Cognitive Processes
Learning Preferences and Cognitive Style: Some Implications for Continuing Professional Development.
Peer reviewedSadler-Smith, Eugene; Allinson, Christopher W.; Hayes, John – Management Learning, 2000
Cognitive style is one factor that may influence individuals' preferences for different learning methods and activities related to continuous professional development. Explores the cognitive styles and learning preferences of personnel practitioners (n=127) in the United Kingdom. Finds that the relationship between cognitive style and preference…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Adult Education, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Peer reviewedTimm, Joan Thrower – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 1999
Summarizes factors in cultural experience that affect approaches to learning and problem solving. Reviews evidence of the past 30 years on cognitive style differences in U.S. culturally diverse groups: Asian Americans, Mexican Americans, African Americans, and Native Americans. Discusses mediating effects of gender and social class within cultural…
Descriptors: American Indians, Asian Americans, Blacks, Cognitive Style
Foorman, Barbara R.; And Others – 1985
This investigation examined the effectiveness of training Japanese and American children with a visual animation/construction or verbal labelling strategy for solving computerized geometric matrices that were correctly or incorrectly completed and varied in number of elements (l to 3) and number of transformations (0 to 2). Subjects were 209…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Computer Assisted Instruction, Cross Cultural Studies, Elementary Secondary Education
