This quantitative study examined the relationships and effects of women's learning styles and achievement and success at a Midwestern, private, Catholic, liberal arts women's undergraduate program. The primary focus was on first-year female students' learning styles and how these learning styles may affect their GPAs and decisions to persist to…

The descriptive phenomenological study explored qualitatively the lived experiences of freshman nursing students who were taught with teaching strategies that were different from the strategies to which they were accustomed. Further, the study explored whether or not the teacher's teaching strategies complemented the learning styles of the…

Experiential learning theory, as developed by David Kolb, offers a useful framework for designing courses to meet diverse learners' needs. Kolb describes learning as a two-dimensional process: grasping the experience (or taking in information) and transforming it. In early life, we are primarily engaged in acquiring information and the basic…