Share Paper: Pilot Study of the Relationships Between Learning Progress and Learning Style in a Web-Based PSI Course

  1. Yusuke Morita, Nagasaki University, Japan
  2. Billy Koen, The University of Texas at Austin, United States
  3. Guohua Ma, The University of Texas at Austin, United States
  4. Zhaohong Wu, The University of Texas at Austin, United States
  5. Aravindh Johendran, The University of Texas at Austin, United States
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Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to determine the relationships between students' learning styles and learning progress in a Web-Based PSI course to teach computer languages to college freshmen majoring in Mechanical Engineering. Results from Felder's Index of Learning Styles (ILS), used to identify students' characteristics and student progress over four semesters, were analyzed by a one-way ANOVA approach. Also, students' learning progresses were quantitatively captured by the differences between their progress curves and the average progress curve. Through the one-way ANOVA analysis we found that the students' scores on the "Active-Reflective" scale are strongly relevant to their learning progress. ...