Fetal testosterone has been shown to affect the areas in the brain that are critical for learning and memory. The present study was designed to investigate if prenatal testosterone exposure is a candidate for having a causal role in sexual dimorphism observed in learning style preferences. A total of 183 students (mean age: 20.65 ± 2.42) from a population of 247 (74%) were enrolled in the study...

The term "learning styles" refers to the concept that individuals differ in regard to what mode of instruction or study is most effective for them. Proponents of learning-style assessment contend that optimal instruction requires diagnosing individuals' learning style and tailoring instruction accordingly. Assessments of learning style typically ask people to evaluate what sort of information p...

Learning styles encapsulate the preferences of the students regarding to how they learn. By including information about the student learning style, computer-based educational systems become able of adapting a course to the individual characteristics of the students. In accomplishing this goal, educational systems have been mostly based on the use of questionnaires for establishing a student lea...

In this study, the Felder learning styles inventory was administered to students who were non-English majors in a Chinese University. Descriptive statistics identified that participants do vary in their preference for particular learning styles with a great variety of learning style preferences distributed unevenly among the sample population. A large number of the participants showed mild pref...

PURPOSE Learning-style instruments assist students in developing their own learning strategies and outcomes, in eliminating learning barriers, and in acknowledging peer diversity. Only a few psychometrically validated learning-style instruments are available. This study aimed to develop a valid and reliable learning-style instrument for nursing students. METHODS A cross-sectional survey study...

The teaching profession has been continually challenged to provide evidence of the effectiveness of teaching and learning methods. Teacher education, as well as nursing education, is currently undergoing reforms in Sweden. At the university where the research was conducted, teaching and nursing programs are two priority educational programs and maybe knowledge of learning styles can improve the...

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether a relationship existed between student learning styles and their preferences toward the various activities associated with the Problem-Based Learning (PBL) approach in the first-year pharmacy curriculum at the University of British Columbia. These PBL activities comprise group discussions, independent research, in-class critical-thinking and ...

Personalized instruction is seen as a desideratum of today’s e-learning systems. The focus of this paper is on those platforms that use learning styles as personalization criterion called learning style-based adaptive educational systems. The paper presents an innovative approach based on an integrative set of learning preferences that alleviates some of the limitations of similar systems. The ...

Virtual Worlds is a promising new medium for educational activities that should address several learning styles and preferences. Learning styles has long been considered a very crucial parameter for designing effective learning experiences. In this study, two learning modalities, i.e. a scenario-based virtual world and a simple web site have been employed in order to investigate their effects o...

The convergence of the wireline telecom, wireless telecom, and internet networks and the services they provide offers tremendous opportunities in services personalization. We distinguish between two broad categories of personalization systems: recommendation systems, such as used in advertising, and life-style assisting systems, which attempt to customize or specialize services to an individual...