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Preferences and Experiences of Traditional and Nontraditional University Students
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Woods, Kathryn; Frogge, George – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2017
This study compared and contrasted preferences and experiences of traditional and nontraditional students. Students at a midsized state university in the southeast region of the United States were surveyed to determine the number of hours spent working off campus, hours spent studying, their preferred learning format, and current grade point…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Preferences, Student Experience
Business Administration Students as Surrogates for IT Professionals: Summary of a Study
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Cline, Melinda; St. John, Jeremy; Guynes, Carl S. – American Journal of Business Education, 2015
The purpose of this paper is to report a summary of the results of a study which examined the appropriateness of using business school students as surrogates for IT professionals by comparing cognitive styles, physiological characteristics, and basic demographic data among the two groups. Cognitive style refers to the way individuals think,…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Cognitive Style, Demography, Psychological Characteristics
Learning Styles, Subject Matter, and Effectiveness in Undergraduate Distance Education
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Wu, Darren C. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Are potential relationships among students' learning styles and effectiveness in online education moderated by subject matter for undergraduate students at a private higher education institution? This causal relationship correlational study evaluated the effects of subject matter as a moderating variable between students learning styles and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Online Courses, Undergraduate Students, Distance Education
Learning Styles of Typical Readers and Dyslexic Adolescents
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Andreou, Eleni; Vlachos, Filippos – Journal of Visual Literacy, 2013
The present study examined the link between learning styles and dyslexia in secondary school students, using the Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic (VAK) learning styles model. According to the VAK model, most people possess a dominant or preferred learning style, however some people have a mixed and evenly balanced blend of the three styles. Our…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Cognitive Style, Learning Modalities
Effects of Framing and Team Assisted Individualised Instructional Strategies on Senior Secondary School Students' Attitudes toward Mathematics
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Awofala, Adeneye O. A.; Arigbabu, Abayomi A.; Awofala, Awoyemi A. – Acta Didactica Napocensia, 2013
The study investigated the relative effectiveness of framing and team assisted individualised (TAI) instructional strategies on the attitudes toward mathematics of 350 senior secondary school year two Nigerian students. The moderating effects of gender and style of categorisation were also examined. The study adopted pre-test and post-test control…
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Educational Strategies, Secondary School Mathematics, Student Attitudes
Learning Auditory Discrimination with Computer-Assisted Instruction: A Comparison of Two Different Performance Objectives.
Steinhaus, Kurt A. – 1981
A 12-week study of two groups of 14 college freshmen music majors was conducted to determine which group demonstrated greater achievement in learning auditory discrimination using computer-assisted instruction (CAI). The method employed was a pre-/post-test experimental design using subjects randomly assigned to a control group or an experimental…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Behavioral Objectives, Cognitive Style, College Freshmen