Selected Case Studies of the Learning Style Preferences of Gifted Students

Ballinger, V. , & Ballinger, R. Teaching foreign language in styles: Identifying and accommodating learner needs. In The foreign classroom new techniques . Lincolnwood, IL: National Textbook , 1983.

Barbe, W.B. , & Milone, M.N. Modality characteristics of gifted children. The gifted child teacher . Mobile, AL: G/C/T Publishing, 1982.

Brown, R. The effects of congruency between learning styles and teaching styles on college student achievement. College Student Journal, 1978, 12, 44-47.

Burton, C.B. Teaching for individual and cultural differences: A necessary interaction . Educational Leadership, 1977, 34, 6.

Cafferty, E. An analysis of student performance based upon the degree of match between the educational cognitive style of the teachers and the educational cognitive style of the students. Ed. D. dissertation , University of Nebraska, 1980.

Carbo, M. An analysis of the relationship between the modality preferences of kindergarteners and selected reading treatments as they affect the learning of a basic sight-word vocabulary. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, St. John's University, 1980.

Carbo, M. Reading styles change between second and eighth grade. Educational Leadership, 1983, 40, 56-59.

Carruthers, S. , & Young, A. Preference of condition concerning time in learning environments of rural versus city eighth grade students. Learning Styles Network Newsletter. 1980, 1 (2), 1.

Cavanaugh, D.P. Student learning styles: A diagnostic/prescriptive approach to instruction . Kappan, 1981, 62, 202-203.

Cody, C. Learning styles, including hemispheric dominance: A comparative study of average, gifted, and highly gifted students in grades five through twelve . Doctoral dissertation, Temple University, 1983 .

Copenhaver, R. W. The consistency of student learning styles as students move from English to mathematics. Ed.D. dissertation, Indiana University, 1979.

Della Valle, J. An experimental investigation of the relationships between preference for mobility and the word recognition scores of seventh grade students to provide supervisory and administrative guidelines for the organization of effective instructional environments. Ed.D. dissertation, St. John's University, 1984 .

Domino, G. Interactive effects of achievement orientation and teaching style on academic achievement, ACT Research Report, 1970, 39, 1-9.

Dunn, K. Madison Prep: Alternative to teenage disaster, Educational Leadership , 1981, 38, 386-387.

Dunn, R. Individualizing instruction through contracts-does it work with very young children? In Audiovisual instruction. Washington, DC: National Education Association, 1971, 16, (3), 78-80.

Dunn, R. Learning : A matter of style. Educationol Leadership, 1980, 37, 360-361.

Dunn, R. , & Carbo, M. Modalities : An open letter to Walter Barbe, Michael Milone and Raymond Swassing. Educational Leadership, 1981, 38 (5), 386-387.

Dunn, R. , & Price, G.E. Identifying the learning style characteristics of gifted children . Gifted Child Quarterly, 1980, 24, 33-36.

Griggs, S.A. Counseling the gifted and talented based on learning styles, exceptional children , Washington, DC: Council for Exceptional Children, February, 1984, 50 (5), 429-432.

Griggs, S.A. , & Price, G.E. Learning styles of gifted versus average junior high school students . Kappan, 1980, 61, 361. (a)

Griggs, S.A. , & Price, G.E. A comparison between the learning styles of gifted versus average suburban junior high school students. Roeper Review, 1980, 3, 7-9. (b)

Hart, L.A. The misconceptions about learning disabilities. Principal ,1976, 56, 54-57.

Hodges, H. Madison prep: Alternatives through learning styles. In Student Learning Styles and Brain Behavior. Reston, VA : National Association for Secondary School Principals , 1982 .

Hodges, H. Learning styles Rx for mathaphobia. Arithmetic Teacher , 1983, 30 (7), 17-20.

Hudes, S. , Saladino, A. , & Miegier, D. Learning style subscales and self-concept among high achieving third graders . The Journal, 1977, 7, 7-10.

Jackson, D. E. An assessment of the behavior of children working without direct supervision alone or in pairs with manipulative materials on teacher-designed tasks self-selected or teacher-assigned. Ed.D. dissertation, Columbia University. Dissertation Abstracts International, 1978, 38A, 3910A.

Kaley, S. B. Field dependence/independence and learning styles of sixth graders. Ph.D. dissertation, Hofstra University, 1977 .

Keefe, J.W. Learning style: An overview. In Student learning styles: diagnosing and prescribing programs. Reston, VA: National Association of Secondary School Principals, 1979.

Kirby, P. Cognitiue style, learning style, and transfer skill acquisition. Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University 's National Center for Research in Vocational Education , 1979 .

Krimsky, J.S. A comparative analysis of the effects of matching and mismatching fourth grade students with their learning style preferences for the environmental element of light and their subsequent reading speed and accuracy scores. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, St. John's University, 1982.

Lynch, P.K. An analysis of the relationships among academic achievement, attendance, and the individual learning style time preferences of eleventh and twelfth grade students identified as initial or chronic truants in a suburban New York school district. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, St. John's University, 1981.

Lyne, N.A. The relationship between adult students' level of cognitive development and their preference for learning format. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Maryland, 1979.

Martin, M.K. Effects of the interaction between students' learning styles and the high school instructional environment. Doctoral dissertation, University of Oregon . Dissertation Abstracts International, 1977 , 39A, 96A.

Murrain, P. Administrative determinations concerning facilities utilization and instructional grouping: An analysis of the relationship(s) between selected thermal environments and preferences for temperature, an element of learning style, as they affect the word recognition scores of secondary school students. Doctoral Dissertation , St. John's University, 1983.

Perrin, J. An experimental investigation of the relationships among the learning style sociological preferences of gifted and normal primary children, selected instructional strategies, attitude, and achievement in problem solving and word recognition. Doctoral dissertation, St. John's University , 1984.

Pizzo, J. An investigation of the relationships between selected acoustic environments and sound, an element of learning style, as they affect sixth grade students' reading achievement and attitudes. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, St. John's University, 1981.

Pizzo, J. Breaking the sound barrier—classroom letters and learning style. set: research information for teachers, New Zealand: New Zealand Council for Educational Research, 2, 1983.

Price, G.E. , Dunn, K. , & Griggs, S. Studies in students' learning styles. Roeper Reuiew, 1981, 4 (2), 38-40.

Restak, R. The last frontier. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1979.

Schmeck, Ronald R. , & Lockhart, Dan. Introverts and extroverts require different learning environments. Educational Leadership, 1983, 40 (5), 54-55.

Shea, T. An investigation of the relationship among preferences for the learning style element of design, selected instructional environments, and reading test achievement of ninth-grade students to improve administrative determinations concerning effective educational facilities. Doctoral dissertation, St. John's University, 1983.

Spiridakis, J.N. Learning styles and the bilingual child: Diagnostic approaches. Learning Styles Network Newsletter, 1983 (Summer), 4 (2), 6.

Tanenbaum, R. An investigation of the relationships between selected instructional techniques and identified field dependent and field independent cognitive styles as evidenced among high school students enrolled in studies of nutrition. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, St. John's University , 1982.

Thies, A. A brain-behavior analysis of learning style. In Student learning styles: Diagnosing and prescribing programs. Reston, VA : National Association of Secondary School Principals , 1979.

Thies, A. The biology of attention. Early Years, 1983 , 13, (7), 18.

Trautman, P. An investigation of the relationship between selected instructional techniques and identified cognitive style. Doctoral dissertation, St. John's University, 1979.

Urbschat, K.S. A study of preferred learning models and their relationship to the amount of recall of CVC trigrams. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Wayne State University, 1977.

Virostko, J. An analysis of the relationships among student academic achievement in mathematics and reading. Assigned instructional schedules and the learning style time preferences of a New York, suburban school's third, fourth, fifth and sixth grade students. Doctoral Dissertation, St. John's University , 1983.

Weinberg, F.G. An experimental investigation of the interaction between modality preference and mode of presentation in the instruction of arithmetic concepts to third grade underachievers. Doctoral Dissertation, St. John's University, 1983.

Wheeler, R. An alternative to failure: Teaching reading according to students' perceptual strengths. Kappa Delta Pi Record, 1980, 17 (2), 59-63.

Wheeler, R. An investigation of the degree of academic achievement evidenced when second grade, learning disabled students' perceptual strengths are matched and mismatched with complementary sensory approaches to beginning reading instruction. Doctoral Dissertation, St. John's University , 1983.

White, R.T. An investigation of the relationship between selected instructional methods and selected elements of emotional learning style upon student achievement in seventh grade social studies. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, St. John's University, 1980.