Detecting the needs of the learner is a challenging task for systems addressing issues related to either adaptivity or personalization. In this paper we present a student-driven learning and assessment tool along with a tool for detecting/calculating learning styles and affective states. The learning and assessment tool enables learning, while the detection/calculation tool detects learning sty...

BACKGROUND Understanding the learning styles of medical students can drive the institutions to adapt instructional materials to enhance students' learning of knowledge and skills. This study explored the learning styles of undergraduate medical students, comparing gender variations in terms of their significant preferences. MATERIALS AND METHODS A cross-sectional observational study was perfo...

Task-based language teaching (TBLT) has been considered as an effective language teaching methodology. However, its applicability for lower-proficiency learners in EFL contexts has not been adequately justified. Moreover, the possible mediating effect of the experiential learning styles on academic listening TBLT has not been targeted in the literature, a gap that this study attempts to fill. T...

This article makes two different contributions: an analysis of learning styles among undergraduate students in different academic programs, and a proposed regrouping of programs in order to improve teaching practice. The study was conducted in Mexico City in a Mexican private university (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México ITAM), among a sampling of 753 first-year students in 11 undergradu...

Considering the increasing importance of adaptive approaches in CALL systems, this study implemented a machine learning based student modeling middleware with Bayesian networks. The profiling approach of the student modeling system is based on Felder and Silverman’s Learning Styles Model and Felder and Soloman’s Index of Learning Styles Questionnaire. The questionnaire was adapted to Turkish fo...

One of the main concerns when providing learning style adaptation in Adaptive Educational Hypermedia Systems is the number of questions the student has to answer. With respect to learning styles, it is possible to decrease the number of versions taking into account the general tendency of the student and not the specific score obtained in each dimension. In this paper we present a new approach ...

BACKGROUND The compressed curriculum in modern knowledge-intensive medicine demands useful tools to achieve approved learning aims in a limited space of time. Web-based learning can be used in different ways to enhance learning. Little is however known regarding its optimal utilisation. Our aim was to investigate if the individual learning styles of medical students influence the choice to use ...

Sarikcioglu L, Senol Y, Yildirim FB, Hizay A. Correlation of the summary method with learning styles. Adv Physiol Educ 35: 290– 294, 2011; doi:10.1152/advan.00130.2010.—The summary is the last part of the lesson but one of the most important. We aimed to study the relationship between the preference of the summary method (video demonstration, question-answer, or brief review of slides) and lear...