Describes behavioral patterns and learning processes that illustrate the function and nature of learning during the inventive process. Presents a learning process that describes this adult learning project. (JOW)

To determine the preferred method for obtaining new information, Canfield's Learning Styles Inventory was used with 120 participants in a recidivism program at Utah State Prison. The chi-square test suggests that respondents are significantly different from the general population regarding their preferred method of learning. (Author/JOW)

The Myers Briggs Type Inventory was completed by 193 vocational and 275 nonvocational secondary students (77% responded). Significant differences were found between personality types/learning styles of the two groups. These differences should be addressed in the learning environment, curriculum, instructional strategies, and evaluation procedures.…

The Multi-Modal Paired Associates Learning Test-Revised measured 89 high school graduates and 38 dropouts on 7 learning modalities. Both groups scored highest in the visual and lowest in the olfactory modality. Graduates scored higher than nongraduates, suggesting that dropouts are less able to learn from print and aural methods. (SK)

Published studies of hypermedia as an educational technology that have emphasized quantitative and empirical assessment of outcomes were reviewed. The evidence to date suggests that hypermedia benefits in education are limited to learning tasks depending on repeated manipulation and searching of information. Implications for instruction and…

Reports on a survey of 25 higher education departments indicating 56% provided mentoring of various types and styles. Each type results in learning of different kinds and quality. Outlines a mentor training program that should help mentors understand mentoring as part of a developmental strategy. (SK)

Scores of 118 of 341 participants in a leadership development program on measures of critical thinking and adaptive flexibility were used to revise a model of critical thinking and reflective judgment in leaders. Two paths were identified: (1) confirmatory relearning corroborating an existing model of meaning and (2) developmental learning…

Training for 561 executives in the use of information and communications technologies was based on a model, the Executive Learning Ladder. Results indicated that sense making was accelerated when conducted in peer groups before being extended to less-experienced managers. Learning preference differences played a role. (Contains 38 references.) (SK)

A study of the learning style preferences of 133 graduate students found differences among age cohorts and between men and women. Ways to construct accommodating learning environments were identified. (SK)

Illustrates how to support and incorporate different student learning styles into teaching. Presents example materials pertaining to laboratory diagnosis of liver disease in a veterinary medical curriculum and demonstrates how a body of material can be adapted to multiple presentation formats. (EV)

There are differences between how adults learn and how they want to learn. Adaptive conjoint analysis, a technique that deconstructs products and services into discrete elements, can provide insight on what, how, where, and when people want to learn and how likely they are to choose some programs over others. (JOW)

Reviews literature on the natural learning approach as it pertains to spelling instruction, which focuses on incidental and informal methods of learning to spell. Emphasizes there is only partial support for the inherent assumptions of the approach and reports young children who receive little or no spelling instruction do as well as their…

Australian apprentices (n=389) expressed a preference for well-structured training with clear expectations in social learning contexts. Results were at odds with current flexible delivery methods that unstructured, self-directed, and independent learning approaches. (Contains 41 references.) (SK)

Uses a Confucian-Socratic framework to analyze culture's influence on academic learning, comparing and contrasting ideals for learning that are culturally more Chinese (Confucian) with those that are more western (Socratic). Discusses expressions of these approaches in modern postsecondary contexts, noting the effects of these approaches on…

Half of a group of 46 younger and 45 older adults watched a slide sequence once (one-trial learning), the other repeatedly (criterion learning). Three weeks later, they were asked questions with misleading information. When event memory was poor for older adults in the criterion group, they were more suggestible. In one-trial learning, younger…