Designers of distance education must be concerned with learning style, isolation, feedback, pacing, learner control, interaction, motivation, access to resources, and course objectives. Some problems are alleviated by such audiographic technologies as telewriter systems. (SK)

Describes conceptualization of compensation that applies to life span cognitive development, in general, and aging of prose processing skills, in particular. Presents model of forms and processes of compensation that directs attention to developing dynamics of cognitive skills and compensatory mechanisms. Outlines three main approaches to research…

The decision styles of 370 academic library directors were studied using the Decision Style Inventory. Results indicated that most directors have an idea rather than an action orientation and that most are left-brain dominant. Preferred decision styles among directors at doctoral, comprehensive, baccalaureate, and two-year institutions differed…

Educators have three approaches to learning styles: focusing on the individual, using comprehensive models to adapt instruction to major learning differences, and identifying key elements of an individual's learning style and matching instruction and materials to these differences. One controversial aspect of learning styles is the use of…

An associate law professor recounts the incompatibility of his own professors' analytical teaching methods with her dynamic learning mode. Since learning the 4MAT principles, she has used alternative approaches to help law students move from experiential learning to abstract thought, to practical theory applications, and to development of new…

To find out about learning styles programs and instruments, educators can contact the Arizona State University's Educational Information System, perform an ERIC search, or request information from educational associations, organizations, and experts. This article advises on choosing learning style models, designing supportive environments,…

Investigated relationship between acculturation and achieving styles for 244 undergraduate Latinas. Acculturation predicted use of six of nine achieving styles. Hispanicism was positively related to six styles, whereas Americanism was related to four styles. The more bicultural, wider the repertoire of achieving styles. Achieving styles differed…

Presents and analyzes several proofs of a property of the area under a hyperbola credited to Gregory of Saint-Vincent, a seventeenth-century mathematician. A historical perspective shows a connection between culture and the discovery of a mathematical theory. The universality of mathematics implies a variety of procedures. (Author/MDH)

A study found that learners with reflective-observing learning styles (n=16) tend to learn better with linear video, and those with active experimenting learning styles (n=42) tend to achieve greater learning with computer-assisted interactive video instruction. (JOW)

Conducted study on quality of life for women at liberal arts college using participatory, feminist research approach. Findings from 180 women revealed that students were satisfied with their personal networks of friends but generally critical of overall social atmosphere of the college. Respondents favored initiation of women's studies courses and…

Study of 119 counseling psychologists revealed that counselor individual differences in cognitive complexity, but not preferences for client problems, moderated cognitive processes that lead to bias in clinical judgment. Counseling psychologists with lower cognitive complexity were more likely to form biased clinical judgments than were those with…

Analytical thinkers process information sequentially, use induction and abstraction, and are objective. Global thinkers process simultaneously and are deductive, concrete, and subjective. The challenge is to match teaching to learners' strengths. (SK)

Science educators should strive to create a classroom climate receptive to different world views and cultural styles while guiding students to deep understanding of the ideas and processes of mainstream science. Understanding students' world views is more beneficial than overgeneralized cultural categorization. (SK)

Investigates the interobserver agreement of the Learning Behavior Scale (LBS) by educators (n=16) observing students in special-education classes (n=72). No significant observer effect was found. Moreover, the LBS produced comparable levels of differential learning styles for assessments of individual children. (Author/MKA)

Studied the relationships between learning styles as expressed in questionnaires and actual study strategies in a computer-assisted study environment (CASE) for 41 Dutch college freshmen. The diagnostic study task revealed differences between deep- and surface-learning students in orientation and planning activities, but not in actual study…