Learning styles and learning
Subtitle: a key to meeting the accountability demands in education
By: Ronald R. Sims and Serbrenia J. Sims (editors).
Contributors: Sims, Ronald R.; Sims, Serbrenia J.
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Hauppauge, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
Subjects: Learning, Psychology of.; Cognitive styles in children.; Educational tests and measurements.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Ronald R. Sims and Serbrenia J. Sims; title: Learning styles : a review of the inventories, 1960s-2000s, and the questions of their actual uses inside and outside of the classroom / Leslie K. Hickcox; title: Learning styles : a review of English-language literature / Tas Befford; title: Learning styles and learning spaces : a review of the multidisciplinary application of experiential learning theory in higher education / Alice Y. Kolb and David A. Kolb; title: Rationale and strategies for using Kolb learning style theory in the classroom / Julie E. Sharp; title: Learning styles, disciplines, and enhancing learning in higher education / Pauline Kneale, John Bradbeer and Mick Healey; title: Learning style composition of teams : implications for assessment / D. Christopher Kayes and Anna B. Kayes; title: Embracing diverse learning styles : inviting the whole self into learning through the arts, emotion, the body, and direct experience / Shannon Simonelli; title: Learning styles and higher education : no adult left behind / Karen Burke and Laura Shea Doolan; title: Teaching adult learners through a learning styles approach : an anecdotal reflection on 44 years of teaching experience / Bill Purkiss; title: Decontextualized testing, learning styles, and the need for style-switching in minority students / Serbrenia J. Sims and Ronald R. Sims; title: One size doesn't fit all : achieving accountability through application of learning patterns / Donna W. Jorgensen; title: Connecting diversity to student learning and outcomes assessment / James A. Anderson; title: The field dependence/field independence learning styles : implications for adult student diversity, outcomes assessment, and accountability / Blue Wooldridge & Melanie Haimes-Bartolf; title: Maximizing learning outcomes in training and development : the critical role of learning and learning styles / Ronald R. Sims and Serbrenia J. Sims.