Personalization according to specific requirements of an individual student is one of the most important features in adaptive educational systems. Considering learning and how to improve a student’s performance, these systems must know the way in which an individual student learns best. In this context, the current work outlines a new approach to automatically and dynamically discover students ...

This paper looks at the role of student awareness of learning styles in helping to both reflect on those styles and to consider their role in a piece of assessed work. Entwistle’s Approaches to Study Skills Inventory for Students (ASSIST) is used in these two ways. The first is by getting the students to consider each of the learning styles suggested by ASSIST. The second is by considering whet...

Current literature presents four primary parenting styles: authoritative, authoritarian, permissive, and neglectful. These styles provide an important shortcut for a constellation of parenting behaviors that have been characterized as consisting of warmth, demandingness, and autonomy granting. Empirically, only warmth and demandingness are typically measured. Research reporting on parenting sty...

Previous studies indicated that parenting styles were important influencing factors for the development of children's well-being. It is known that mass migration to the cities in China will affect family relations. However, few studies focused on the relationship between parenting styles and adolescents' mental health in migrant families. Thus, this study aimed to investigate how parenting styl...

This article investigates (a) whether register discrimination can successfully exploit linguistic information reflecting the evolution of a language (such as the diglossia phenomenon of the Modern Greek language) and (b) what kind of linguistic information and which statistical techniques may be employed to distinguish among individual styles within one register. Using clustering techniques and...

BACKGROUND Various research studies have suggested that among other variables that couples remain married if they successfully manage their interactions (marital communication based on acceptance of individual differences, problem solving skills, forgiveness, collaborative decision making, empathy and active listening) and constructively manage conflict. PURPOSE The study was aimed at examini...

Background: Preferred learning styles of learners are different, which depend on tastes, mentality preparedness, as well as physical condition, in terms of sensory modalities. Identifying and employing appropriate learning styles could play an important role in selecting teaching styles, which can improve education ultimately. Aim: The present study aimed to assess the diversity of learning sty...