.... This study aimed to determine whether entrepreneurial experience has an influence on the preferred learning styles of students. The study also investigated the appropriateness of the Reduced Kolb Learning Style Inventory as a measuring instrument. Design/methodology/approach The study was conducted...

...Guilherme Luz Tortorella; Rogério Miorando; Diego Fettermann; Diego Tlapa Mendoza Purpose This article identifies the association between two methods for teaching lean manufacturing (LM): problem-based learning (PBL) and classroom lectures, and students' learning styles of a postgraduate course...

... Emerald Publishing Limited 2019 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Learning methods Learning styles Problem-based learning Various studies have suggested that engineering graduates need to acquire and demonstrate a set of generic or “soft” skills...

...Darwish Abdulrahman Yousef Purpose The purpose of this paper is to address the use of Honey and Mumford’s Learning Styles Questionnaire (LSQ) to investigate the learning style preferences of undergraduate students at the American University of Ras Al Khaimah (AURAK) in the United Arab Emirates...

...Denise M. Jepsen; Melinda M. Varhegyi; Stephen T.T. Teo Purpose – Although learning styles and teaching quality have been studied separately, the association between the association between the two has yet to be identified. The purpose of this paper is to establish the relationship between...

...Dr Paul Jones and Dr Heather Skinner; Jack Goulding; Sharifah Syed-Khuzzan Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the use, construct, and pervasiveness of learning styles theory. Whilst extant literature has provided educational theorists with a temporal landscape for promoting...

... and long‐term effects of a workshop on teaching and learning styles with regard to changing teachers' implicit beliefs and teaching practice. Findings Fourteen months after a two‐day workshop on learning and teaching styles, teachers' implicit beliefs about learning and teaching remain explicit...

...Carol Evans; Martin Graff; Zarina M. Charlesworth Purpose This paper seeks to present research findings on the relationship between culture and learning styles, as defined by Honey and Mumford in a Higher Education setting. Design/methodology/approach The research was conducted with first...

... in the process of constructing knowledge, and investigate the relationship between students' questions, approaches to learning, and learning styles. Design/methodology/approach The questions raised by 100 first‐year chemistry students in Science and Engineering courses at the University of Aveiro, Portugal...

...Eugene Sadler‐Smith; Carol Evans; Lena Boström; Liv M. Lassen Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the field of learning, learning style, meta‐cognition, strategies and teaching by classifying different levels of the learning process. The paper aims to present an attempt to identify how...

... framework that integrates the skills and values of the student with those of the local professional community to create a unified and authentic learning environment. A second major result of this longitudinal study was that medical students remained self‐directed irrespective of their learning styles...

..., and not the opposite. Learning methods Learning styles Qualifications Given these relations between CE, approaches to learning, and academic achievement, it is reasonable to assume that CE also may have an indirect effect on academic achievement, via approaches to learning, or that approaches...

...Eugene Sadler‐Smith; Carol Evans; Simon Cassidy Purpose In the light of the growing emphasis on independent learning and non‐technical skills in education and employment, the study aims to examine the relevance of learning style to student self‐assessment skill. Design/methodology/approach...

...Eugene Sadler‐Smith; Carol Evans; Carol Evans; Eugene Sadler‐Smith Purpose The purpose of this paper is to introduce a selection of papers from the 10th Annual European Learning Styles Information Network Conference. Design/methodology/approach The paper looks at problems, developments...

... architectures being more suited to the cognitive styles of particular users. Learning styles Cognitive mapping Data handling Worldwide web Architecture Navigation However, tests of disembedding figures have been found to be correlated with standard tests of spatial ability (McKenna, 1984 , 1990...

...Gary Pheiffer; Debbie Holley; David Andrew Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the use of learning styles in developing learning in a higher education context. Design/methodology/approach The paper employs a case study of a year one introductory module for first‐year university...

... to examine the influence of learning style preferences on team learning performance. Design/methodology/approach The Grasha‐Riechmann Student Learning Style Scales (GRSLSS) is used to assess the learning style preferences of business students enrolled in an operations management class. Findings...

...David P. Spicer Results of a study into the relationships between students’ academic performance and their cognitive and learning styles are presented. A questionnaire containing three instruments assessing learning and cognition was distributed to second‐ and final‐year undergraduates studying...

... – caused by the needs of business in the latter group, and because of a combination of work, study and finance in the case of the former. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Multimedia Higher education Students Teaching methods Learning styles Thus class sizes rose and staff/student ratios have...

..., the ability to judge ideas and evidence, is the primary aim of HE: Higher education Assessment Critical path analysis Learning styles Thinking styles The purpose of this paper is to identify the main problems in assessing reflective learning and to propose how they might be resolved. In so...