Many tertiary education institutions struggle in identifying how best to teach students to learn statistics. Finding factors which advocate successful and effective learning is considered vital in any tertiary education institutions. Numerous studies have been conducted within the context of teaching and learning in order to determine the factors that contribute to a better learning environment...

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. Eighty undergraduate students on a primary education degree were studied to examine the relationship between their cognitive style, learning preferences and perceived impact on their...

E-learning usability is a goal of the user centred e-learning design. Its achievement depends on the determination of the requirements and preferences of the users of an e-learning system or environment (learner, teacher and administrator of an educational process). This paper presents an approach to estimation of learner’s preferences that have to influence the teaching process in the creation...

Personality and individual differences are effective parameters in human activities such as learning. Since the learning style of each learner is different, we must fit learning to the different needs of learners. In this paper, an innovative learning approach is proposed by considering the learner’s preferences. Using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator’s (MBTI) tools, a framework for adaptive tea...

This study examines the relationship between cognitive style (adaptors versus innovators) and the learning curve when implementing new information technology. Kirton’s proposition that adaptors and innovators find equally creative ways of solving problems based on cognitive preferences was tested using a longitudinal case study. Test subjects were paramedics from a large metropolitan area. Cogn...

This study was undertaken to determine the learning style preferences of first and 2nd year BDS students by administering VARK questionnaire. Stepping stone method was used to identify sensory modality preference of each student. 51% students preferred single mode of learning style (27% kinesthetic, 15% aural, 6% read/write and 3% visual mode of learning style). 49% students preferred multiple ...

Dobson JL. Learning style preferences and course performance in an undergraduate physiology class. Adv Physiol Educ 33: 308–314, 2009; doi:10.1152/advan.00048.2009.—Learning styles may be classified according to the sensory modality that one most prefers to use when internalizing information. The four major sensory modalities are visual, aural or auditory, read/write, and kinesthetic. The purpo...

Each learner has different preferences and needs. Therefore, it is very crucial to provide the different styles of learners with different learning environments that are more preferred and more efficient to them. This paper reports a study of the intelligent learning environment where the learner’s preferences are diagnosed, and then user interfaces are customized in an adaptive manner to accom...

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Individual’s learning style determines the mechanism of processing, internalization, and retention of new information. The higher education centers and professors need information and conformity to various learning styles to help students learn effectively. In addition, researchers believe that learning styles are one of the factors responsi...

Wehrwein EA, Lujan HL, DiCarlo SE. Gender differences in learning style preferences among undergraduate physiology students. Adv Physiol Educ 31: 153–157, 2007; doi:10.1152/advan.00060.2006.— Students have individual learning style preferences including visual (V; learning from graphs, charts, and flow diagrams), auditory (A; learning from speech), read-write (R; learning from reading and writi...