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The Nature of Preference
Author(s) -
GRANTHAM ROBERT J.,
GORDON MYRA E.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
journal of counseling and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.805
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1556-6676
pISSN - 0748-9633
DOI - 10.1002/j.1556-6676.1986.tb01146.x
Subject(s) - executive director , psychology , citation , personality , psychoanalysis , management , library science , sociology , computer science , economics
There are some who believe that preferences can be easily changed and that those who dislike something can be made to like it by using behavior modification techniques. In higher education this is expressed as attempts to improve or gap-fill what is seen as a deficiency in a learner’s skill set. Our work with modality preferences using the VARK questionnaire is not supportive of these ideas as we believe that a learner’s preferences for the ways in which he/she takes in and expresses their learning are difficult to modify or change.