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Nguyen, Dat-Dao; Zhang, Yue – Journal of College Teaching & Learning, 2011
This study uses the Learning-Style Inventory--LSI (Smith & Kolb, 1985) to explore to what extent student attitudes toward learning process and outcome of online instruction and Distance Learning are affected by their cognitive styles and learning behaviors. It finds that there are not much statistically significant differences in perceptions…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Feedback (Response), Cognitive Style, Student Attitudes
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Johnson, Mary – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2009
Background: Many studies have documented the correlation of learning style and academic success for medical students. However, few have investigated the intersection of academic preparedness and students' preference for information processing. This study tested the hypothesis that learning style preference differs among medical students grouped by…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Medical Students, Personality Measures, Correlation
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Tabor, Sharon W.; Minch, Robert P. – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2013
Digital technologies offer many opportunities for creating engaging course content. In this study we captured student perceptions and adoption choices related to creating and using digital media as learning tools. Podcasts, video and other media were integrated in a variety of contexts and tasks in two undergraduate information technology (IT)…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Adoption (Ideas), Electronic Learning
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Conwell, Catherine R.; And Others – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1987
Examined the effect of matching learners' cognitive styles with science learning activities on changes in science knowledge and attitudes. Fifty-six elementary education majors, identified as Sensing Feeling types on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, participated in the study. Results revealed no significant differences between matched and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Inservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Science Instruction
Ueno, Junko – 1998
A study investigated: (1) the distribution of learning styles of students of Japanese as a second language, as measured by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, (2) students' preferences for error correction in speaking and writing, as measured by a researcher-developed questionnaire, and (3) relationships between students' learning styles and their…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, College Students, Error Correction, Higher Education
Thompson, Tom – 1993
A study examined student responses to teacher comments on a student essay. First-year students at the Citadel, an all-male military school, imagined they wrote a paper on which a teacher had made 16 comments (eight positive and eight negative, eight having implied answers, eight having open-ended answers) and then rated those comments based on how…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, College Freshmen, Higher Education, Military Training