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Gaining Insight into Business Telecommunications Students Through the Assessment of Learning Styles
Author(s) -
Sandman Thomas E.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
decision sciences journal of innovative education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.52
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1540-4609
pISSN - 1540-4595
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-4609.2008.00221.x
Subject(s) - disadvantaged , style (visual arts) , set (abstract data type) , learning styles , process (computing) , cognitive style , computer science , mathematics education , knowledge management , psychology , cognition , archaeology , neuroscience , political science , law , history , programming language , operating system
The assessment of student learning styles can be of significant value for developing and evaluating an appropriate mix of pedagogical techniques and activities. With this in mind, learning style preferences were collected from over 300 undergraduate business telecommunications students. These set of data show that a breadth of learning style profiles are exhibited by undergraduate business telecommunications students. Most importantly, this article demonstrates a process to evaluate whether or not the current course structure either favors or disadvantages any particular learning style profile. Because there are many learning style profiles present, the evidence that no single profile is disadvantaged gives the instructor confidence in the mix of pedagogical techniques and activities that are employed in this particular course.