Motivated by the increasing volume and complexity of real-world data, my research focuses on providing better soware support for co-located collaborative information analysis. In particular, I consider mixed-focus collaboration—team work characterized by frequent changes in collaboration styles, which range from loosely coupled, individual work to closely coupled, group work. I identify three ...

Past studies have extensively examined factors associated with coping strategies that caregivers use to ameliorate distress or solve problems. While these studies have found that stressors and individual resources influence choices of coping strategies, they have tended to overlook caregivers' social resources and have rarely considered the possibility that distinct groups of caregivers may use...

Cognitive styles can be characterized as individual differences in the way people perceive, think, solve problems, learn, and relate to others. Field dependence/independence (FDI) is an important and widely studied dimension of cognitive styles. Although functional imaging studies have investigated the brain activation of FDI cognitive styles, the combined structural and functional correlates w...

The effect of test on teachers, students, and their classroom behaviors has ever been amenable to scholarly studies. To explore such an effect, 20 professors offering MA TEFL preparation courses and 30 candidates received PLSP and APALS inventories. Paired-sample t-tests revealed significant differences. However, the respective componential multivariate ANOVA revealed non-significant and signif...

To maximize employee performance in today’s increasingly competitive environment, companies must enhance individual creativity through the effective management of organizational network structures and learning cultures. This study is an empirical analysis of how firms should design these structures and improve individual creativity according to employees’ working styles. We propose a research m...

introduction: t his study aimed to investigate the male and female students’ learning styles of classroom participation and these styles’ differences between humanities and science majors. methods: 1039 individuals were selected through the proportional stratified random sampling method among undergraduate and graduate students in humanities (n=421) and science (n=618) faculties of tehran unive...

The existence of individual learning styles is a hot topic in contemporary education theory and practice. There is an ongoing debate on whether learners benefit from teaching methods that are tailored to their perceived learning styles. The majority of educators believe that such styles do exist and a striving industry benefits from this concept. However, experts conclude that the evidence on t...