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《Journal of Further & Higher Education》2012,36(1):13-21
In the current further education (FE) and higher education (HE) environment, students are under increasing pressure to perform well and achieve good results. As educators we must strive to enable students to make the most of their higher education by providing an education of the highest quality and enhance the learning experience. This study was undertaken as a preliminary investigation of how students learn and how we, as educators, can improve their learning. In this study, a range of students on different (FE and HE) courses completed the VARK (visual, audio, read/write, kinaesthetic) questionnaire on learning style preferences at the beginning of the semester. Responses were analysed and the author adapted various teaching techniques into course materials for the semester to accommodate the results obtained in the initial VARK survey. Students' responses were encouraging, with many being keen to participate with a view to improving their course performance. The author found that using a range of teaching techniques encouraged student participation in the course and, for some, enhanced their performance in assessment. This investigation provides an insight into the awareness of learning style preferences and how such awareness can be positively exploited in teaching and learning processes. 相似文献
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Higher education has struggled to acknowledge and translate into better teaching and learning practices that sizeable literature base suggesting a link between cognitive style, learning preferences, and performance. Research is reported in which 80 undergraduate students on a primary education degree were studied to examine the relationship between their cognitive style, their learning preferences, and perceived impact on their teaching practices. All students completed the CSA measure of cognitive style, the ASSIST, two further questionnaires exploring learning preferences and perception of good teaching during the course, and an evaluation at the end of the teaching unit. Significant differences were found between the three cognitive styles investigated: wholist, intermediate, and analytic. In terms of learning preferences, using ANOVA statistically significant differences were found between the three styles with wholists being most concerned about speed of delivery and least liking computer‐assisted learning. In addition, wholists preferred less structure than analytics in their teaching and claimed to use more images while analytics claimed to use more speech in their teaching. Intermediates demonstrated a greater preference for tangential approaches to teaching and were least happy with the nature of the teaching they had received while at university. Many of the differences reported in the literature between the different cognitive styles were not evident in this study. However, the interpersonal and intrapersonal characteristics of wholists and analytics, respectively, were evident and perceived to impact on planning and delivery in the classroom. While further school‐based research involving greater numbers is required, interest in learning styles remains especially relevant if one intends to offer a truly inclusive education for all learners. 相似文献
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为研究网络新技术对大学生学习方式的影响情况,研究采用问卷调查法,选取某学院2008级、2009级、2010级部分院系的学生作为研究对象,从大学生对网络新技术的使用及认同情况、大学生学习方式的表现、大学生对教学的满意度三个维度开展了问卷调查。研究结果表明:当前大学生对网络新技术使用频率高,时间长,认同其典型的Web 2.0特性;大学生的学习方式表现了较强的主动性、参与性、协作性、共享性行为和意愿,受此特性的影响,大学生的教学满意度较低。 相似文献
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《Community College Journal of Research & Practice》2013,37(5):363-375
In the study reported in this article, we examine the extent to which community college students' learning style preferences vary as a function of discipline. We were interested in knowing whether gender and academic performance play a role in student learning style preferences. The learning style preferences of 105 community college students (47 males and 58 females) were measured in four disciplines (i.e., English, mathematics, science, and social studies) using a modified version of the Kolb Learning Style Inventory IIa (Kolb, 1995), which was aimed at determining learning mode orientations: concrete experience, reflective observation, abstract conceptualization, and active experimentation. The results revealed significant differences in students' learning styles preferences across disciplines, but not for gender. In addition, student learning style preferences varied by academic performance as measured by GPA. These findings have important implications for community college teaching and research. 相似文献
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The goal of this paper is to present the findings of a new research project on teacher candidates' learning style preferences and the implications thereof for their teaching styles. The researchers utilized two different learning‐style assessment instruments based on Dunn and Dunn's learning style model—one paper and pencil and one online learning style assessment instrument to identify course participants' learning styles. Within the same institution of higher education, the learning style concept was introduced and operationalized in two different ways. Using a combination of quantitative and qualitative approaches, teacher candidates' individual and group learning style profiles and their reflections on their own learning and teaching styles are discussed. 相似文献
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This study investigates, using the Learning Style Questionnaire, the learning style preferences of a group of vocational tertiary students and their teachers. It seeks to identify learning style differences, if any, between students in various stages of their course, between sexes and between “high” and “low” achieving students and their teachers. Furthermore, it examines the similarities and differences between the preferred learning style of the chosen sample of students and other tertiary vocational students. The major findings for the students, relevant to the above variables, and the teachers are discussed. As well, with respect to teachers and students, the implications of attempting to match teaching and learning styles are examined. 相似文献
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Kenneth David Strang 《International Journal of Educational Research》2009,48(4):245-257
Online higher education professors may find their teaching approaches conflict with the learning preferences of their globally dispersed students, which can impede academic performance. In this empirical study of 254 international doctorate students (across 23 cultures), a model was developed to assess how learning expectations affected dissertation performance. Five indicators were validated from a survey and split sample: mentoring, rendering, interpreting, constructing, and schemata. Contemporary higher education performance-related factors and instruments were also discussed, namely: attrition, competence, motivation, supervision, discipline difference, learning style, and culture. Limited experimental control consisted of same university context and program. The hypotheses were tested using structural equation modeling; revealing three latent factors (method, supervision, and quality) explained 56% of the variance effect on candidate performance. 相似文献
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非英语专业大学本科生英语学习特点及启示 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
从感知的视角,采用定量研究方法揭示了非英语专业大学本科生的英语学习风格偏好。研究表明:(1)非英语专业大学本科生的整体学习风格倾向于多元化,相对而言,他们更喜爱体验型风格和听觉型风格;(2)专业对学习者的英语学习风格的影响不大。英语学习风格偏好因学年的不同而有所差异。本研究结果对外语教学方案的科学设计具有一定的启示意义。 相似文献
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The purpose of this paper is to gain insight into the relationships between hands‐on experiences with formative assessment, students’ assessment preferences and their approaches to learning. The sample consisted of 108 university first‐year Bachelor’s students studying criminology. Data were obtained using the Revised two‐factor study process questionnaire (R‐SPQ‐2F) and the Assessment preferences inventory (API). The study shows that differences in assessment preferences are correlated with differences in approach to learning. Students’ preferences for assessment methods with higher‐order thinking tasks are significantly lower after actual experience with a formative assessment. Moreover, students also changed their approaches to learning after hands‐on experience with a formative mode of assessment. Surprisingly, this change evinced a more ‘surface approach’ to learning. Nevertheless, this is in line with other recent research findings. The paper ends with some possible explanations, and new directions for research are proposed. 相似文献
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What makes a good educator? The relevance of meta programmes 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Nigel Brown 《Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education》2004,29(5):515-533
This paper reports the results of a qualitative study which explores the relevance of meta programmes to students' perceptions of teaching quality. Meta programmes are a model of personality preferences from the discipline of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP). Research into teaching effectiveness indicates that students rate as important ‘hygiene factors’ such as the teacher's ‘knowledge of the subject’ as well as less tangible qualities including ‘ability to communicate’ and ‘student–teacher rapport’. This study reveals the need for similar qualities but, in some cases, presence of these ‘hygiene factors’ was insufficient; students cited other factors related to personality. Some students were found to like the approach of certain teachers whilst other students rated the same teachers less favourably. When questioned as to why, factors emerged that relate to the distinct teaching style adopted by these teachers that appeared to suit particular students and not others. This study suggests that a teacher's meta programmes influence the approaches adopted in their teaching and these styles suit students with matching meta programme preferences. Where students have different meta programme preferences from the teacher, then, even where the ‘hygiene factors’ are met, this leaves the student dissatisfied. There is potential for teachers to adopt teaching approaches more appropriate for the meta programme profiles of their students. Also, on the part of the students, an increased awareness of their meta programme preferences offers the potential to improve their learning experience. 相似文献
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李景光 《新乡师范高等专科学校学报》2004,18(5):106-108
近20年来,英语教学研究的重心已从教学法转向了学习者及其在学习中的作用,"以学生为中心"围绕学习者进行教学"已成为当今国内外外语教学界的一个时髦话题,学习风格———作为构成学习者个体特征的主要因素之一,已越来越受到众多学者及外语教师的关注。通过实施对中学生学习风格的系统性研究,有利于教师根据学生的学习风格有效地进行教学。对于学习者而言,了解自身的学习风格,并通过拓展自己的风格类型,则有利于他们去主动适应不同教师的教学风格,从而达到最佳的学习效果。 相似文献
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Thomas E. Sandman 《Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education》2009,7(1):295-320
The assessment of student learning styles can be of significant value for developing and evaluating an appropriate mix of pedagogical techniques and activities. With this in mind, learning style preferences were collected from over 300 undergraduate business telecommunications students. These set of data show that a breadth of learning style profiles are exhibited by undergraduate business telecommunications students. Most importantly, this article demonstrates a process to evaluate whether or not the current course structure either favors or disadvantages any particular learning style profile. Because there are many learning style profiles present, the evidence that no single profile is disadvantaged gives the instructor confidence in the mix of pedagogical techniques and activities that are employed in this particular course. 相似文献
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张安民 《湖州职业技术学院学报》2014,(1):20-23
构建了高职主题式合作学习的课堂教学模式,并将其在《酒水知识与调酒》课程中进行了实际检验。整个研究以某高职学院旅游系二年级的67位学生为研究对象。通过编制五个不同的教学主题,结果发现,有过半数的学生认为主题式合作学习在他们的学习态度上是有所增益的,有近六成学生认为在学习成就方面也是有影响的。这一教学模式有望能为高职课堂教学改进提供有益参考。 相似文献
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Robert Loo 《教育心理学》2004,24(1):99-108
Much has been written about the relationships between learning styles and learning preferences with the aim of tailoring teaching methods to the ways that students prefer to learn. This study used a sample of 201 management undergraduates to examine the relationships between Kolb's four learning styles and four learning types, and 12 different learning preferences. Only three significant relationships were found. It is suggested that large individual differences in learning preferences within each style and type, and small differences in learning preference mean scores show that, overall, there are weak linkages between learning styles and learning preferences. It is recommended that researchers control for Type I error rates and present effect sizes when statistically significant relationships are found to prevent chance and trivial findings from influencing educators. It is recommended that educators use a variety of learning methods and encourage students to be receptive to different learning methods rather than try to link specific learning methods to specific learning styles. 相似文献
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本文采用问卷调查的形式,探索中职学生的英语学习风格偏好。结果表明中职生的英语学习风格偏向于视觉型、听觉型、外向型、严谨型、整体型、分析型的学习风格,在感知学习风格、个性学习风格、感知学习风格三个大组中,属于混合风格的学生比例都较小。年级变化是影响学习风格分布的最大变量,男女学生在严谨/随意型学习风格构成有显著性差异。研究结果能敦促中职英语教师基于中职学生的学习风格改变教学策略,从而促进英语语言学习的成功。 相似文献
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Lenda Cook 《Community College Journal of Research & Practice》2013,37(4):419-425
This study examined the relationship between learning style awareness and academic achievement of community college students. The study was undertaken to determine if learning style awareness alone, without a change in the manner of teaching or in the matching of student and instructor styles, would benefit community college students as evidenced by an increase in academic achievement. The sample consisted of 78 second term anatomy students at Florida Community College in Jacksonville who were taught by two instructors who used comparable content and methods. By random assignment, half the group served as a control; the treatment half was given a learning style inventory, the Productivity Environmental Preference Survey (PEPS) by Dunn, Dunn, and Price (1979). The PEPS profiles were returned at mid‐term and were interpreted for each student. Individualized study tips for using learning style preferences advantageously were provided. All students were exposed to the same classroom experiences. Summed unadjusted scores of 105 objective items of common first and second classroom tests served as pretest scores. Scores of the 105‐item comprehensive final examination were used as posttest scores. An ANCOVA was performed using the pretest scores as covariates. There was a significant difference in academic achievement in favor of the learning style awareness group (p<.05). 相似文献
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周保群 《延安教育学院学报》2007,21(2):37-39
学习风格是学生个性化差异因素之一,是学习者在学习中表现出来的一种整体性、持久性的并具有个性化的认知方式和处理信息的方式。本文通过问卷的方式对高职学生的外语学习风格进行了调查和研究,发现高职学生主要学习风格为视觉型和动手型。同时也分析了高职学生学习方式上的性别差异,并对高职教学提出了一些想法和建议。 相似文献