Cognitive Styles, Gender, and Student Academic Performance in Engineering Education

Learning styles of design students and the relationship of academic performance and gender in design education

The study focuses on design education using Experiential Learning Theory (ELT) and explores the effects of learning styles and gender on the performance scores of freshman design students in three successive academic years. Findings indicate that the distribution of design students through learning style type preference was more concentrated in assimilating and converging groups. Further study ...

Cognitive styles and student progression in architectural design education

Individuals can be classified in terms of having a particular cognitive style or preference in the way in which they perceive or process information. This paper investigates how students with particular cognitive styles, as measured by Riding’s Cognitive Styles Analysis, perform in design project work at particular stages of Architectural Education. It suggests that contrary to assumptions foun...

Modelling Engineering Student Academic Performance Using

Student Cognitive Styles in Postsecondary Technology Programs

Much of the published research on cognitive styles focuses on the differences in cognitive styles of students pursuing different majors in either a four year institution or a two year institution. For example, Witkin, et al. (1977) conducted a ten year longitudinal study in four year institutions which sought to determine if field dependence/independence was related to a student's (1) initial m...

Cognitive styles in HCI education and practice

This project examines the cognitive profile of the HCI professional with the view of providing a benchmark against which to compare HCI students. 134 professionals responded to an online survey which captured their individual cognitive style using Hayes and Allinson’s Cognitive Style Index and Blazhenkova & Kozhevnikov’s Object-Spatial Imagery and Verbal Questionnaire. Some of these were HCI pr...