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Denovan, Andrew; Dagnall, Neil; Drinkwater, Ken; Parker, Andrew; Neave, Nick – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2020
This study examined whether thinking style mediated relationships between belief in conspiracy and schizotypy facets. A UK-based sample of 421 respondents completed the Generic Conspiracist Beliefs Scale (GCBS), Oxford-Liverpool Inventory of Feelings and Experiences Short (O-Life), and measures indexing preferential thinking style (proneness to…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Schizophrenia, Cognitive Style, Correlation
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Yousef, Darwish Abdulrahman – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2016
Purpose: Although there are many studies addressing the learning styles of business students as well as students of other disciplines, there are few studies which address the learning style preferences of statistics students. The purpose of this study is to explore the learning style preferences of statistics students at a United Arab Emirates…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Statistics, Cognitive Style
Beeman, Jennifer Leigh Sloan – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Research has found that students successfully complete an introductory course in statistics without fully comprehending the underlying theory or being able to exhibit statistical reasoning. This is particularly true for the understanding about the sampling distribution of the mean, a crucial concept for statistical inference. This study…
Descriptors: Sampling, Cognitive Style, Preferences, Intuition
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Mior Yusup, Farah Nabillah; Balakrishnan, Khaymalatha – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
Learning style is an individual's natural or habitual pattern of acquiring and processing information in learning situations. A core concept is that individuals differ in how they learn. This study focused on to look at a group of TESL undergraduates' preference in learning styles. The finding showed that the students have different kind learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cognitive Style, Undergraduate Students, English (Second Language)
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Hwang, Gwo-Jen; Sung, Han-Yu; Hung, Chun-Ming; Huang, Iwen – Educational Technology & Society, 2013
Learning styles are considered to be one of the factors that need to be taken into account in developing adaptive learning systems. However, few studies have been conducted to investigate if students have the ability to choose the best-fit e-learning systems or content presentation styles for themselves in terms of learning style perspective. In…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Student Needs, Educational Games, Cognitive Processes