ERIC Number: EJ1194440
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2018-Oct
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Learning Styles, Online Courses, Gender, and Academic Achievement of Hispanic Students in Higher Education
Jones, Irma S.; Blankenship, Dianna
Research in Higher Education Journal, v35 Oct 2018
This study aims at identifying learning styles of two groups of online students enrolled inLegal Studies and Corporate Training courses and comparing learning styles and academicachievements in those courses. The learning styles questionnaire was adapted from a learningstyles questionnaire in College Study Strategies (Laskey & Gibson, pp. 52-53, 1997) and is acontinuation of previous research by the authors. In the fall 2017, the authors administered theadapted questionnaire to undergraduate corporate training and legal studies online students in aSouthern Hispanic serving institution. The questionnaire allowed students to identify whethertheir preferred method of learning was field dependent or field independent. Results of thelearning styles questionnaires were compared with academic achievement. A discussion of fielddependent and independent learning styles for Hispanic online learners will be presented. Recentresearch and the evidentiary rationale for attempting to predict academic achievement fromspecific learning styles will be explored.
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Online Courses, Gender Differences, Academic Achievement, Hispanic American Students, Undergraduate Students, Legal Education (Professions)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Texas
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