Describes a study that tracked doctoral students during the coursework phase in a Web-based learning environment. Explains the use of Kolb's Learning Style Inventory to test the hypothesis that learning style would predict completion of the required courses and suggests implications for future research. (Author/LRW)

Describes an assessment instrument (VARK) that college professors can use to identify their own teaching strategies as well as to help student become more aware of their own learning strategies and motivations. Discusses its use with students in West Virginia and New Zealand, and potential use in Central and Eastern Europe. (EV)

Suggests that the research literature that supports American instructional leadership theory and practice has limited transferability in other cultural contexts. Claims that teachers in multicultural classrooms need to "become" immigrants and minorities, and that teacher education programs must help future teachers to adapt by exposing them to…

Dyslexia issues such as its existence, definition, and medical versus educational construction have been framed by the scientific paradigm. Reframing using an ecological perspective allows assessment focused on whole-school approaches and sociocultural factors. It also enables the use of predictive research and a view of dyslexia as more than a…

Describes new ways to structure course work that improve faculty and learner productivity and better serve the learning styles and needs of nontraditional students. The program involves five components: learning goals, measures of student performance, knowledge of how to achieve learning with the particular student population, knowledge of options…

Analysis of 1,475 transcripts of online discussions among 7 student learning groups (n=38) with diverse learning styles indicated that most groups seem to respond to diversity by accommodation or elaboration rather than transformation. Few groups seem to invest the resources needed to capitalize on cognitive diversity and engage in nonroutine…

Cumulative research evidence on field dependence-field independence suggests that matching teacher and learner cognitive styles has limits, but can be used to identify varied teaching methods. Both learners and teachers should develop a flexible approach to cognitive style attitudes and behavior. (Contains 41 references.) (SK)

Students in web-based courses (n=74) completed the Group Embedded Figures Test and an online questionnaire on learning strategies and patterns. They used strategies to determine important ideas from lectures and memorize key concepts. They used online features more for checking grades than communicating with the class. Learning strategies…

The field-dependent cognitive styles of 44 professionals in customer service occupations provided a benchmark to interpret data for 239 secondary marketing education students. Results suggest that males have greater access to analytic traits such as restructuring skill, problem-solving interest, and skill with abstractions. (Contains 38…

Discusses the use of hypermedia to accommodate students' individual learning differences and to help students develop complex learning skills to acquire complex knowledge. Examines 10 research studies that investigated interaction between students' learning skills and their use of different forms of instruction. (Author/LRW)

After informally studying his first grade class, a teacher tentatively concluded that some students are phonetic learners and some are not. A faster method of identifying phonetic and nonphonetic learners is needed. No study that fails to consider differences in learning styles can possibly yield valid results except by chance. (MLH)

The article reviews findings in research about gifted readers, instructional materials, and curriculum. Promising teaching strategies are examined including interest assessment, learning styles evaluation, curriculum compacting, and enrichment. Innovative current programs and practices are briefly described. (Author/DB)

The behaviorist, cognitivist, and humanist approaches to learning all have advantages and disadvantages. A teaching cycle that uses all three techniques related to individual learning styles (theoretical, pragmatic, reflective, activist) may be the best route to achieving peak performance. (SK)

The paper reviews research studies on individual differences in students' predispositions to learning either in quiet or with sound. One study with 64 sixth graders found students achieved higher standardized reading test scores and had better attitudes when taught in congruent, rather than incongruent, environments. (DB)

Suggests that the effectiveness of specific teaching approaches may be highly dependent on individual learning styles. Reviews issues related to matching teaching and learning styles and identifies ways in which style information can be used to enhance instruction. (SK)