This research identifies individual differences in academic achievement attributable to thinking styles over and above what can be explained by self-rated abilities. Participants were 209 university students from Hong Kong and 215 university students from mainland China. Participants responded to the Thinking Styles Inventory (Chinese version) that is based on Sternberg's theory of mental self-...

consists of a small knowledge-based system teaching and assisting designers of interactive applications in selecting appropriate interaction styles for a particular context of use. As any other tool for working with guidelines, five development milestones have been browsed. Guidelines for selecting interaction styles have been captured in a knowledge-base system as selections among an available...

Teaching Institutions are up against challenges of an advanced technology of learning with the objective of improving the efficiency of the teaching-learning process. Joining the students’ learning style to the technologies is important to improve the educational process. This work presents the advantages of using mobile devices, associated with the students’ learning styles. The learning which...

Computer science students often fail to connect what they learn in one course to another course or to the workplace. This can reflect a failure to transfer learning between contexts. The main goal of this article is to explore how transfer of learning can be facilitated in the most common teaching styles in computer science. In addition, we will discuss how common teaching strategies for develo...

The current study investigates the influence of manipulatives used in combination with traditional approaches to mathematics education and how varying amounts of time spent on manipulative use influence student achievement across different learning styles. Three learning environments were created that incorporated varying proportions of traditional teaching approaches and manipulative methods. ...

Computer-based logic proofs are a form of ’unnatural’ language discourse, but the structure and process of proof can be observed in considerable detail, and analysis is leading to a number of general insights. We have been studying how students respond to multimodal logic teaching. First, psychological measures indicate that students’ pre-existing cognitive styles have a sigaificant impact on t...

Adults have different learning styles. Thus the aim of this study was to determine the preferred learning style and specific teaching-learning methods of physiotherapy students. A cross sectional study was conducted on 36 first year physiotherapy students at the department of physiotherapy, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. The students were asked to rank l...

The purpose of this research is to examine the teaching styles primary school teachers for thinking skills according some variables. General survey model was used in research. population consisted working schools affiliated İzmir Provincial Directorate National Education. sample study 307 who voluntarily participated which scale applied. data were collected with "Personal Information Form" and ...