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Boström, Lena – International Education Studies, 2012
Students' individual learning strategies have been identified as important skills in order to succeed in school as well as important for lifelong learning. The Swedish steering documents are permeated by an epistemological and a methodological variation based on the individual student's learning. Learning how to learn has been identified by the EU…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Cognitive Style, Preferences
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Slack, Nicola; Norwich, Brahm – Educational Research, 2007
Background: Psychology and educational theory has a long tradition of research into learning styles. However, the current educational policy and practice interest in learning styles in the UK has resulted in concepts and practices being adopted with little rigorous empirical evaluation. Purpose: This small-scale, experimental study aimed to test…
Descriptors: Reliability, Validity, Cognitive Style, Measures (Individuals)
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Sharp, John G.; Bowker, Rob; Byrne, Jenny – Research Papers in Education, 2008
Developments within education, psychology and the neurosciences have shed a great deal of light on how we learn while, at the same time, confirming for us all that learning is a profoundly complex process and far from understood. Against this background, and in this position article, we consider the recent rise in interest in the concept of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Foreign Countries, Learning Processes, Visual Perception
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Reiff, Judith C. – Psychology: A Quarterly Journal of Human Behavior, 1986
Children were administered the Learning Style Inventory. Analysis revealed that children across sex, grade, and race had a majority of no preferences for the variables considered. The auditory approach was the least preferred learning mode by all groups. Specific diagnosis concerning modality strengths will contribute to a youngster's success in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students