An exploratory study of the relationship between learning styles and cognitive traits

Authors:
Sabine Graf;Taiyu Lin;Lynn Jeffrey; Kinshuk
Affiliations:
Women's Postgraduate College for Internet Technologies, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria;Department of Information Systems, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand;Department of Management & International Business, Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand;Department of Information Systems, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
Venue:
EC-TEL'06 Proceedings of the First European conference on Technology Enhanced Learning: innovative Approaches for Learning and Knowledge Sharing
Year:
2006

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Abstract

To provide personalization and adaptivity in technology enhanced learning systems, the needs of learners have to be known by the system first. Detecting these needs is a challenging task and therefore, mechanisms that support this task are beneficial. This paper discusses the relationship between learning styles, in particular the Felder-Silverman learning style model, and working memory capacity, a cognitive trait. Due to this relationship, additional information about the learner is available and can be used to improve the student model. An exploratory study is presented to verify the identified relationship based on the literature. The results of the study show that the identified relationship between working memory capacity and two of the four dimensions of the learning style model is significantly supported. For the two remaining dimensions further research is required.