Cognitive style and instructional materials for medical students

Cognitive style and instructional preferences

The aim of the study was to investigate the relationship between learners’ cognitive styles and their instructional preferences. The sample consisted of 240 business studies students at a UK university. Subjects’ cognitive styles were assessed using the Cognitive Styles Analysis (which assesses the wholist-analytical and verbaliser-imager dimensions of style) and their instructional preferences...

The role of instructional context in medical students ’ self - assessments

Students’ Learning Style Preferences and Teachers’ Instructional Strategies: Correlations Between Matched Styles and Academic Achievement

Fall Winter 2012, Vol. 22, Number 1 Page 36 L style theories have been cited as an effective means for helping teachers recognize the incredibly diverse needs students bring into the classroom (Felder & Brent, 2005; Hall & Mosely, 2005; Sternberg, Grigorenko, & Zhang, 2008; Williamson & Watson, 2007). According to Zapalska and Dabb (2002), an understanding of the way students learn improves the...

Instructional Factors Analysis: A Cognitive Model For Multiple Instructional Interventions

In this paper, we proposed a new cognitive modeling approach: Instructional Factors Analysis Model (IFM). It belongs to a class of Knowledge-Component-based cognitive models. More specifically, IFM is targeted for modeling student’s performance when multiple types of instructional interventions are involved and some of them may not generate a direct observation of students’ performance. We comp...

Students' Metacognition and Cognitive Style and Their Effect on Cognitive Load and Learning Achievement

The present research’s objective is to examine the effects of metacognitive scaffolding and cognitive style in the Field Dependence Independence (FDI) dimension on cognitive load (CL) and learning achievement (LA) in high school students, when they interact with a hypermedia environment on philosophy (logic). Fifty-four students belonging to two eleventh grade courses from a public school in Bo...