OBJECTIVE The present study aimed to identify the most common learning preferences among the nursing students in Saudi Arabia and to investigate the associations of certain demographic variables with the learning preferences. METHODS All the undergraduate nursing students in the nursing college were requested to participate in this descriptive cross-sectional study. An Arabic version of the F...

The relation between lecture attendance and learning is surprisingly weak, and the role of learning styles in this is poorly understood. We hypothesized that 1) academic performance is related to lecture attendance and 2) learning style influences lecture attendance and, consequently, affects performance. We also speculated that the availability of alternative resources would affect this relati...

With the exponential growth of Internet technology, the notion of users’ cognition when navigating such a vast information space has gained prominence. Studies suggest that metaphors can serve as effective tools to scaffold users’ mental modeling processes. However, how users conceive of the metaphorical aid (as opposed to simply how they perceive it) remains questionable. Cognitive style, or t...

Traditional and modern vocabulary instruction techniques have been introduced in the past few decades to improve the learners’ performance in reading comprehension. Semantic mapping, which entails drawing learners’ attention to the interrelationships among lexical items through graphic organizers, is claimed to enhance vocabulary learning significantly. However, whether this technique suits all...

Applying technology in teaching and learning activity must be arranged, vividly combined with the expertise of lecturer/teacher since they have a lot experience conventional ways classroom. It means that one time lecturer lectures online, other is through offline (classroom). This combination can said as blended learning. Theoretically, visual, auditory, kinesthetic are kinds students style. Mo...

introduction. several factors may influence teaching – learning ptocess. one of them is individual learning style. teacher must consider students’ learning style to enhance their academic performance. the aim of this survey was determiuation the learning style (based on the kolb experiential learning theory) among medical students of qazvin medical faculty. methods. this is a descriptive study ...

Learning styles are personal qualities that influence the way students interact with their learning environment, peers, and teachers (Alkhasawe, Mrayyan, Docherty, Alashram, & Yousef, 2008). According to Felder and Silverman (1988), mismatches exist between common and traditional learning styles of engineering students and traditional teaching styles of engineering professors. Felder (1996) ind...

Led by the success of neural style transfer on visual arts, there has been a rising trend very recently in the effort of music style transfer. However, “music style” is not yet a well-defined concept from a scientific point of view. The difficulty lies in the intrinsic multi-level and multi-modal character of music representation (which is very different from image representation). As a result,...

Visual reasoning plays an important role in problem-solving and the success of student’s learning mathematics. This study aims to reveal students’ visual ability solving quadratic function problems terms activist, reflector, pragmatic styles. research used a qualitative approach with case were 30 9th-Grade students at one public junior high schools Karanganyar District, Central Java, Indonesia....