Cognitive Style and Achievement in Distance Education
- Editore:
VDM Verlag
- EAN:
9783639036138
- ISBN:
3639036131
- Pagine:
- 100
- Formato:
- Paperback
- Lingua:
- Tedesco
Descrizione Cognitive Style and Achievement in Distance Education
Field dependent and field independent cognitivestyles are contrasting ways of perceiving andprocessing information. This study investigated howthe cognitive styles of field dependence (FD) andfield independence (FI) affect the achievement levelsof distance learners. This research examined the matching or mismatchingthe design of asynchronous distance education to thefield dependent and the field independentlearner.Subjects were administered the GEFT, ameasure of field dependence-independence. Only thosein the first (Field Dependent) and fourth (FieldIndependent) quartiles of the resulting distributionparticipated the study. Half of each group wasrandomly selected to receive asynchronous onlineinstruction matching their cognitive style, and halfreceived asynchronous online instruction mismatchingtheir cognitive style. Matching the FD cognitive style, in asynchronousdistance education had a positive impact onachievement for both Field Dependent and FieldIndependent learners as measured from pre to post test.
