Analyzes students at Saint Mary's College (Los Angeles) and describes changes that have taken place in the last decade in student preparedness, ethnic and cultural backgrounds, attitudes toward science, and learning styles. (PR)

Examined ways to create accessibility to generic chemical dependency treatment for people with learning differences. Conducted key informant survey of chemical dependency workers and developmental disabilities workers to determine needs of chemical dependency treatment programs, staff, and people with learning differences in making treatment…

Review of both aboriginal and nonaboriginal literature elicited principles for aborigine adult education: enabling learner control; supporting and reflecting culture, values, and experience; conducting learning in places familiar to learners; and using culturally appropriate content and teaching strategies. (SK)

Study on vocational differentiation conducted with 387 college students revealed that higher levels of vocational differentiation were found in men than in women and were related to use of personal constructs when subjects judged highly irrelevant career alternatives. Effects were qualified by interaction between construct type (personal and…

Studied two worldviews, Endeavoring Self and Harmonizing Self, among Chinese international students (n=170). Found that Mainland Chinese and Taiwanese students scored significantly higher on Endeavoring Self than did students from Hong Kong. When worldview scores of individuals were analyzed, considerable variations were noted. (Author/NB)

Discusses effective teaching and its relationship to learning styles, instructional processes, and teacher commitment. Stresses the importance of knowing the students and the subject matter and developing students' higher order thinking skills. (JOW)

Learners' preferred perceptual modalities--the means through which they obtain information--need to be considered in instruction design. Two strategies to individualize instruction are a multisensory approach and point-of-intervention approach. (SK)

Presents factors to consider in selecting learning style assessment instruments and classifies 20 instruments according to these criteria. (SK)

Examined relationship between self-reported depression and cognitive style in adolescent psychiatric inpatients (n=80). Adolescents who reported depression also reported significantly more internal attributions for negative events and less internal attributions for positive events, evidenced more external locus of control, and described themselves…

Examined gender differences in individual and cooperative (small-group) self-management training programs targeting mathematics performance. Findings from 33 fifth graders revealed that girls in individual training condition improved significantly less than girls in cooperative condition and boys in individual condition. Boys in cooperative…

Discusses: research showing the effectiveness of teaching to students' learning styles in raising student achievement; the "Learning Style Inventory," a test for identifying learning styles; what the LSI reveals and how it affects learning; how learning-style teachers and schools differ from conventional teachers and schools; and…

Proposes that the field of counselor supervision is in a recursive process of knowledge development including theory exploration, theory testing, theory enhancement, and theory transformation. This development will assist counselor supervisors to synthesize multiple perspectives and options so that they can better meet the challenges of an…

Proposes four questions that need to be answered if learning is to be taken seriously for more than a season. They include determining what a degree or certification actually means, what the student has learned, how whole institutional communities can find time to address these issues, and who is responsible for educating children. (Author/JDM)

Discusses the use of multimedia in large-scale computer-based testing programs to measure problem solving and related cognitive constructs more effectively. Considers the incorporation of dynamic stimuli such as audio, video, and animation, and gives examples in history, physical education, and the sciences. (Author/LRW)

A study of two engineering firms attempting to implement a learning orientation found they were most like learning organizations in terms of empowerment and organizational structure. They were least like them in regard to participative policy making and information sharing about the external environment. Poor communication and lack of trust were…