Is Computer-Based Learning Right for Everyone?

  • Authors:
  • Jane H. Leuthold

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • HICSS '99 Proceedings of the Thirty-Second Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-Volume 1 - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign This study tests the hypothesis that underlying learning style is a useful predictor of attitude toward computer-based instruction and learning. My undergraduate economics students participated in a learning style assessment based on the Gregorc Learning Style Delineator to determine their basic learning style: concrete or abstract, sequential or random. Students were also surveyed as to their attitudes toward the computer-based aspects of the class. Correlation analysis showed that students with sequential learning styles use computer-based instructional techniques more frequently and prefer them to traditional instructional techniques when compared with students whose learning styles are random.