What Can Learning Styles Research Learn from Cognitive Psychology?.

Moran, Aidan

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ERIC Number: EJ449305

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Publication Date: 1991

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What Can Learning Styles Research Learn from Cognitive Psychology?

Moran, Aidan

Educational Psychology: An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology, v11 n3-4 p239-45 1991

Explores how research in learning styles can benefit from findings in cognitive psychology. Discusses difficulties of research on learning styles and two relevant findings in cognitive research: the influence of prior knowledge on learning and the potential value to learners of metacognitive awareness. Urges rigorous conceptual and empirical analysis of the construct of learning style. (DK)

Descriptors: Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Style, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Learning Processes, Learning Strategies, Learning Theories, Metacognition, Prior Learning, Psychological Studies, Research Problems, Schemata (Cognition)

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative

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Audience: Researchers

Language: English

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