Nurses (n=235) participating in professional development were asked to recall how they were taught, their role in learning, and their opinion of good teaching practice. Results showed their anxiety about formal learning, recognition of the need for continuing learning, and the need to develop reflective abilities. (SK)

Storytelling helps nursing students explore roles, develop cognitive abilities, and make meaning. It can enhance the learning of students with academic difficulties or physical disabilities, older returning students, and students with different cultural backgrounds and learning styles. (Contains 29 references.) (SK)

The Witkin Group Embedded Figures Test and the Kolb Learning Style Inventory categorized 132 home economics students into learning style categories. All students tended to share the same predominant cognitive learning styles. The major style shown was that of diverger. (Author)

Proposes a new thesis about the role of individual differences in managers' media choice behavior. Argues that individual differences influence media choice only under conditions of low message equivocality. Reports that the findings of an exploratory study provide some support for this theoretical notion. (MG)

Survey responses from 671 (of 2,590) Connecticut dentists indicated that their predominant reasons for participating in continuing education were validation of current knowledge, intellectual gain, and moral commitment. (JOW)

Describes some ways in which learning styles have been examined. Discusses the ways in which differences in learning styles may develop. Presents educational implications of this work. (RJC)

Effective instruction must reflect a functional understanding of the present level of learning, based on the learner's situation and maturity. The Situational Instruction Model is designed to assist in the development of personalized learning. (JOW)

Little evidence exists to support Marie Carbo's notion that matching teaching methods to individual reading styles is superior to more traditional instructional approaches. This article refutes Carbo's claim that children can be readily divided into reading styles and that matching instructional and reading styles will produce better student…

Two studies explored preschool children's beliefs about the relationship between perceptually based similarity among things and their predicted behaviors by focusing on form-function correspondences. Perceptual similarity, if motivated by intuitive beliefs about correspondences between form and function was found to be sufficient basis for…

A 3-year study of female nursing students (n=176, n=138, and n=144, respectively) was undertaken to identify their learning style. Results suggest that curricula in nursing programs should be developed so that students acquire a variety of learning styles. (JOW)

Reviews types of learning styles and criteria for choosing an appropriate assessment instrument. Describes four generations of distance learning and suggests ways to enhance distance education instructional design for different learning styles. (SK)

Workers' opinions regarding adult education conducted in the workplace demonstrated insight about themselves as learners and an understanding of high quality adult education programs. As a whole, the 80 participants preferred active, hands-on learning and preferred someone to demonstrate the task and then to try it themselves. (JOW)

This paper explores how the science of interpretation (hermeneutics) may offer an approach to describing the nature of how one develops understanding during mathematical activity. The discussion centers on personal interpretation and its interactive relationship between mathematics and mathematical activity without focusing upon the distinction…

Findings of three tests given to 267 undergraduates (Wonderlic Personnel Test, Group Embedded Figures Test, and a case problem in 4 formats) were that neither graphic aids alone nor cognitive style alone significantly affected decision making; and when graphic aids and cognitive style are considered in conjunction, cognitive style is responsible…

Discusses ways to improve technology education by taking into account the nature of high quality learning, people's preferred learning styles, and teaching methods that enhance the quantity and quality of learning. (Author)