One of the principal debates in the ®eld of individual di€erences in `learning style' (often used to include cognitive style) has centred around the proliferation of constructs and measures, many of which have been developed with little regard for extant theories and instruments. This study explored the construct validity of learning style as operationalised in the Learning Styles Inventory (LS...

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...

There is evidence that the cognitive vulnerabilities featured in the hopelessness theory of depression-inferential styles for the causes, consequences, and self-worth implications of negative events-increase risk for depression. Given this, it is important to understand how these inferential styles develop. In this study, we examined the impact of overt and relational peer victimization in a mu...

Designing a usable checkout process is of paramount importance for both E-Commerce and M-Commerce success. Aiming to understand humancomputer interactions during checkout and improve the usability and user experience of checkout tasks, this research work investigates the relation among users’ cognitive styles, and alternative checkout designs in terms of user preference and task performance. A ...

The current multi-wave longitudinal study on childhood examined the role that social and academic self-efficacy beliefs and cognitive vulnerabilities play in predicting depressive symptoms in response to elevations in idiographic stressors. Children (N = 554; males: 51.4 %) attending second and third grade completed measures of depressive symptoms, negative cognitive styles, negative life event...

This paper aims to analyze human navigation behavior and identify similarities of cognitive styles using measures obtained from psychometric tests. Specific navigation metrics are utilized to find identifiable groups of users that have similar navigation patterns in relation to their cognitive style. The proposed work has been evaluated with a user study that entails a psychometricbased survey ...

A lot of research has been carried out to assess web-based courses. In many studies the concern has been the students’ satisfaction and achievement in web-based courses and traditional face-to-face courses, and the comparison between the two. Other studies have focused on the development of web-based courses to meet the requirements of educational institutes. Studies about students’ cognitive s...

The present study examines the effect of Individual Learning Style on modeling functional requirements. To-date, there is no evidence that individual cognitive learning styles are related to modeling ability in novice systems analysts. The results of this study indicate that in teaching functional requirement techniques, novices with abstract learning styles perform as well as those with concre...

Student modelling is an important process for adaptive virtual learning environments. Student models include a range of information about the learners such as their domain competence, learning style or cognitive traits. To be able to adapt to the learners’ needs in an appropriate way, a reliable student model is necessary, but getting enough information about a learner is quite challenging. The...