Introduces a unit on the brain and learning styles in which students become aware of their own cognitive styles. Studies the connection between the three senses--sight, touch, and hearing--and three types of learning styles--visual, auditory, and kinesthetic. (YDS)

Of 170 college administrators responding to a survey, 73 were classified as intentional (planned and prepared for administrative careers) and 56 as unintentional (self-identified primarily as academic). Intentionality affected their approach to the job, networking, and professional development. It also appeared to relate to learning style…

Administered an adapted Course Experience Questionnaire (CEQ) and Approaches to Studying Inventory (ASI) to Open University students. Found that approaches to studying in distance education are strongly associated with students' perceptions of the academic quality of their courses. (EV)

Discusses dropout rates in online courses and suggests alternative views of the significance of high drop rates and recommends options for research and practice. Topics include differences between online and traditional students, including learning styles; performance differences and satisfaction; situational factors; and educational system…

Describes some learning tools that are being used in college classrooms to accommodate various learning styles. They include amplification systems, video systems, and whiteboards. (EV)

Explored theoretically incongruent learning patterns among subgroups of students. Students completed the Inventory of Learning Styles in the first and third trimesters. Learning patterns in the third trimester were far more dissonant than in the first trimester. (EV)

This study tried to take into account problems related to researching learning dissonance by applying qualitative research methods and carefully considering the criteria by which coherence or dissonance are diagnosed. Found very clear differences among students' study orchestrations in terms of coherence and dissonance; the orchestrations varied…

Most research indicating dissonant forms of student learning engagement, leading to problems in the achievement of learning outcomes, is with undergraduates. Action research at Anglia Polytechnic University involving questionnaires, focus groups, and supervisory dialogues, conducted with Israeli and British postgraduate students between 1998 and…

Reviews Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences. Shows how Maria Montessori and Howard Gardner drew similar conclusions regarding human capacity and potential. Examines how Gardner's eight intelligences and underlying core operations lie at the heart of the Montessori exercises and activities. (KB)

Reviews theories of depression relevant to research on African American adolescents (socioecologic, cognitive, family stress, and biopsychosocial), asserting that all four emphasize the role of oppression in urban black youth's development and that an integrated theory would assume this underlying construct as its core focus. Presents a…

Perceived classroom fit was examined as interactions between learning style and educational climate. An analysis of 421 students revealed different patterns of fit. Thinking students of either gender did not indicate a preference for classroom climate. Both feeling men and women reported poorer fit with thinking classrooms. Only feeling women…

Examines the relationship between cross-sectional measures of referential style and measures based on the first 50 words in 12 first-born children. Because no relationship was found, it is argued that age-defined cross-sectional measures confound strategy differences in early language development with variation resulting from differences in…

College teachers often believe students have progressed beyond the need for illustrations. Formal higher education stresses abstract linguistic and logico-mathematical intelligences and neglects others, such as spatial intelligence. Engaging as many learning styles as possible helps students learn through all their capabilities. Drawing for…

According to D. W. Merrill's schema, 60 percent of teachers fall into the "director" and "amiable" personality trait categories. Studies have shown that a high percentage of students find such teachers' methods somewhat ineffective. Class activities, such as putting a play's central character on trial, accommodate various learning styles. (JD)

Examined relationship between a reflective- versus impulsive-cognitive style and work adjustment in vocational rehabilitation center clients (N=102) with disabilities. Determined reflective clients were rated as having more positive work abilities, less bizarre behaviors, and more positive overall work adjustment than impulsive clients. (ABL)