According to Group Embedded Figures Test scores for 82 preservice agriculture teachers, 60% were field independent and achieved higher microteaching lab scores and overall methods course grade. Field-independent students were more adapted to teaching with the problem-solving approach. Teacher educators should consider different learning styles and…

Based on research on cognitive style and forms of intelligence, and in light of the new advantages offered by computer technology, this article proposes that college educators must investigate new ways of teaching and explore curricula that are very different from the traditional approach. (MSE)

Finds that African American college students actively processed information more and were more analytic than similar high school students. Finds that Caucasian American males in college were more people-oriented, Caucasian American female college students placed more emphasis on creativity, and Caucasian American college students were less…

Image within the Writing Process is an arts-based literacy program that integrates children's visual imagery at every stage of the writing process. Using various simple art materials and methods, young authors/illustrators have access to visual, kinesthetic, and verbal thinking modes. The process benefits both verbal thinkers and those with…

Describes three strategies to help teachers accommodate the learning styles of poor readers: language experience, mapping, and recorded books. (SR)

Explores administrators' basic modes of information processing: relating to and recalling information without considering implications; relating to information according to practical implications; posing critical questions about information's validity; and relating to information according to fundamental principles. Administrators have different…

Examined children's cognitive style and their play in different play areas according to sex and age. Found that females played most in the physical, block, manipulative, and dramatic play areas, while males played most in block play. Four-year olds played most in physical, block, and dramatic play, while five-year olds most often chose…

This article presents a model to evaluate the imagination and creativity of strategic planners. Characteristics recommended for strategic planners include the cognitive styles of extroverted, intuitive, feeling, and perceptive; marginal personality orientation, which allows for an open-minded viewpoint with integrative skills; internal locus of…

Reviews literature that offers important ideas about various learning styles in the foreign language classroom, style conflicts that can arise between teachers and students, and effective ways for handling those conflicts. (18 references) (CB)

Describes a study that examined whether statistically significant differences existed among performance levels of college students in a beginning media writing class when compared according to cognitive style and learning style subgroups. Results are reported for five mass media formats--broadcast news, television copywriting, documentary,…

Discusses the relationships between knowledge structure, teachers, and learners. Implications for designing an intelligent tutoring system (ITS) are considered; and it is argued that an ITS must model the world, the learner, and teacher-learner interaction to be successful. Experiments conducted to assess the practical usefulness of several…

This paper proposes that those traits which handicap visually oriented dyslexics in a verbally oriented educational system may confer advantages in new fields which rely on visual methods of analysis, especially those in computer applications. It is suggested that such traits also characterized Albert Einstein, Michael Faraday, James Maxwell, and…

Examines whether teachers who have a webblike, multidimensional ordering style preference are more likely to view whole language as a valuable approach to language arts instruction than are teachers with a more methodical, step-by-step orientation to learning. Finds that a relationship exists between learning style preference and orientation to…

Presents an intellectual context and critical analysis of specific material from undergraduate mathematics. Although not definitive in any sense of the word, the sample discussions provided for the included "test" questions all contain significant remarks bearing on significant mathematical concepts. (23 references) (Author/JJK)

Discusses children's ideas about colored objects and colored shadows, with special attention to the organization of these ideas into mental models. The clarification of these models provides instructional tools that serve to assess and confront students' naive conceptions. Subjects were visitors to a science museum who engaged in interactive…