The purpose of this study was to determine whether: (1) students in a selected major had a predominant cognitive learning style, (2) a particular cognitive learning style of students was related to academic achievement, (3) a match or mismatch of cognitive learning styles of students and cognitive learning styles of instructional settings was related to level of student achievement, (4) the two instruments used to categorize cognitive learning styles of students resulted in similarities in classification of students into learning style categories, (5) and instructors' cognitive learning styles were related to their instructional presentation style. The Witkin Group Embedded Figures Test and the Kolb Learning Style Inventory were used to classify 173 fashion merchandising students and six instructors into cognitive learning style categories. The Herold Teaching Strategy Observation Checklist was used to categorize six clothing/textile classes into instructional styles of field independent or field dependent. Results showed students in the selected field of fashion merchandising did have a predominant cognitive learning style. Fifty nine percent of the students were field dependent and 41% were field independent on the Witkin instrument. The Kolb Inventory showed 44.5% were Divergers, 30.6% were Accommodators, 14.5% were Assimilators, 10.4% were Convergers. No relationship was found between a particular cognitive learning style and academic achievement. No relationship was found between a match or mismatch of cognitive learning style of student and instructional setting and student achievement. The Kolb and Witkin instruments showed no similarities in classification of students into learning style categories. There was no significant relationship between personal cognitive learning style of teachers and their style of teaching. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 46-04, Section: A, page: 0905. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1985.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_75543 |
| Contributors | HEITMEYER, JEANNE RICHESIN., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 124 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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