scholarly journals The impact of academic libraries on students' academic achievement: The relationship between learning styles and information seeking anxiety

2018 ◽  
pp. 76-93
Author(s):  
Somayeh Parvin ◽  
Nasrin Kheibar ◽  
Hamideh Mihanpour ◽  
Alireza Rafi
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Learning Styles ◽  
Learning Style ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Anxiety Levels ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Information seeking anxiety is a type of anxiety that affects academic performance. The present study was aimed at investigating the relationship between learning styles and information seeking anxiety in relation to the academic achievement of students. This was a descriptive-analytic research, and the study population consisted of students who had passed at least one semester in Behbahan University, Iran. The sample size was calculated 181 from the Morgan table. The results of this study showed that most of the students used the ‘assimilating' learning style. It was concluded that there was no significant difference between anxiety levels and the field of study. Also, there was no relationship between learning styles and age and gender. Moreover, there was no relationship of gender, academic semester, and age with academic achievement. Even though, there was no relationship between information seeking anxiety and learning styles vis a vis academic achievement, the assimilating learning style was preferred by the majority of the students. The comparison of learning styles with information seeking anxiety was a distinctive feature of this study, indicating that different aspects of learning did not have much effect on the anxiety levels of individuals, which could be the basis for further research on personality dimensions such as self-concept and intrinsic motivation in relation to information seeking anxiety and academic achievement.

The Impact of Foreign Language Learning Style on Strategies Preferences in Art Colleges

2014 ◽  
Vol 971-973 ◽  
pp. 2677-2680
Author(s):  
Di Jiao
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Learning Styles ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Learning Style ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
English Learning ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Factors affecting students’ English learning performances are always debated among language researchers. This research is carried out in art colleges to figure out the students’ preferences in learning styles and learning strategies as well as the relationship between them. Questionnaires have been applied and data have been dealt with by SPSS. This research has shown that students in the art college tend to be visual and individual learners, and thus they prefer to adopt metacognitive, memory and affective strategies.

Plasma kisspeptin and ghrelin levels in puberty variant cases

2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Erdal Kurnaz ◽  
Yaşar Şen ◽  
Süleyman Aydın
Keyword(s):  
Serum Levels ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Control Groups ◽  
Premature Thelarche ◽  
Premature Adrenarche ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
And Gender ◽  
And Control ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractBackground:The aim of this study was to determine the serum levels of kisspeptin and ghrelin (GAH), as well as the relationship of these two peptides with each other in premature thelarche (PT) and premature adrenarche (PA) cases and to investigate the possibility of using these peptides as markers in the differentiation of puberty disorders.Methods:A PT group aged 1–8 years (n = 40), a PA group aged 1–9 years (n = 23, female/male = 20/3) and control groups consistent with each of the previous groups in terms of age and gender were created for the study. Kisspeptin and ghrelin levels were measured with ELISA methods from blood samples drawn while fasting in the morning.Results:When the PT group was compared with the controls, the plasma kisspeptin levels of the cases were significantly higher than the control group (165.47 ± 15.45 pmol/L, 96.82 ± 12.33 pmol/L, p = 0.005, respectively). Kisspeptin levels in the PA group did not show a difference with the control group (121.36 ± 17.99 pmol/L, 95.52 ± 11.54 pmol/L, p = 0.249, respectively). No significant difference could be found when GAH levels in the PT and PA groups were compared with controls. No significant correlation was found between kisspeptin and GAH levels in the PT and PA groups.Conclusions:Our results indicate that kisspeptin plays an important role in the PT, but GAH is not associated with puberty disorders.

The impact of sidedness of colorectal cancer in tumor immunity.

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (4_suppl) ◽  
pp. 584-584
Author(s):  
Masaaki Nishi ◽  
Mitsuo Shimada ◽  
Hideya Kashihara ◽  
Jun Higashijima ◽  
Kozo Yoshikawa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Colorectal Cancer ◽  
Prognostic Factors ◽  
Tumor Immunity ◽  
Poor Prognosis ◽  
Molecular Characteristics ◽  
Clinicopathological Factors ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

584 Background: Clinical and molecular characteristics are different between Right-side and left-sided colorectal cancer (CRC). The aim of this study was to clarify the significance of the correlation of the Sidedness of CRC and tumor immunity. Methods: A total of 116 patients who underwent curative colectomy for stage II/III CRC were included in this study. The expression of PD-1, PD-L1, FoxP3, TGF-b, and IDO was examined by immunohistochemistry and the relationship of sidedness to several prognostic factors was examined. Results: In clinicopathological factors, there were no significant difference between right sided and left sided CRC except for differentiation. Regarding tumor immunity, there were no significant difference in PD-1 and IDO expression. However, Fox P3 (right side 72% vs. left side 59%) and TGFβ (right side 72% vs. left side 57%) tended to be highly expressed in right side(p < 0.1). PDL1 was significantly highly expressed in right side(right side 65% vs. left side 35%, p < 0.05). In OS and DFS, the patients with right sided tumor tended to have poor prognosis compared with left side (p < 0.1). The PD-L1 positive patients of right-sided tumor had poor prognosis (p < 0.05). Conclusions: Sidedness is associated with tumor immunity in colorectal cancer.

scholarly journals Exploring the Impact of VAK Learning Style on Teenager Level Language Learners in Indonesia

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 807
Author(s):  
Rina Asrini Bakri ◽  
M. Asfah Rahman ◽  
Baso Jabu ◽  
Jassruddin Jassruddin
Keyword(s):  
Learning Styles ◽  
Learning Style ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Learning Capability ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Before And After ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Speaking Skills

This study aims at finding out whether Visual Auditory Kinesthetic (VAK) learning styles improve the It presents pre experimental design  to see the impact of  VAK learning style with one group pre-tested and post-tested, employing oral testing. The target group of this study was teenager level language learners at a school in Makassar Indonesia in the 2015/2016 academic year. Twenty nine students with average speaking ability participated in this study. A purposive sampling technique was used to recruit participants.  The data was collected through an oral proficiency. The results of the data analysis indicated that there was a significant difference in the students’ English speaking skills before and after being trained using the VAK learning style. Results indicated that post-test was greater than pre-test in accuracy, fluency, comprehensibility. Based on the result of analysis can be concluded that the adoption of the VAK learning style can improve the English speaking skills and the methodology can be used as a preliminary strategy to assess students’ learning capability.

scholarly journals Internet Usage and Academic Achievement of Adolescents of West Bengal: An Exploratory Study

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 270
Author(s):  
Bikram Maiti
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
West Bengal ◽  
Internet Usage ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Higher Secondary Education ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Present study is a process to find out the effect of internet usage on the academic achievement of adolescents of West Bengal, specifically on the students of Higher Secondary level under the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education. To study the impact thoroughly the investigator divided internet usage into three categories- Educational usage, Communicational usage and Recreational usage. Intending to fetch out the relationship of different types of internet usage with students’ academic achievement as well as the gender difference regarding the internet usage, the researcher formulated some null hypotheses. To go through this study the investigator administered an internet usage questionnaire on 138 class XI students, selected by purposive sampling method from different schools under WBCHSE. Percentage of marks obtained by the adolescents in Madhyamik examination was treated as the academic achievement by them. The investigator used Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation Coefficient and Independent Sample‘t’ test for testing the hypotheses. By the end of the study it was seen that Educational usage and Communicational usage of internet had no effect on their academic achievements, but there was negative effect of Recreational internet usage on their academic achievement. Also, boys and girls differed significantly in respect to their different internet usage.

scholarly journals THE IMPACT OF THE TRAINER’ COMMUNICATIONAL STYLE ON ADULT LEARNERS ‘LEARNING STYLES

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 139-145
Author(s):  
Ionela Roxana Urea ◽  
Cristina Cora Pirvu
Keyword(s):  
Adult Education ◽  
Adult Learners ◽  
Learning Styles ◽  
Learning Style ◽  
Continuous Improvement ◽  
Statistical Processing ◽  
Communication Style ◽  
Vocational Counselling ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Today, it is clear to everyone that regardless of the studies completed, the process of continuous improvement is necessary depending on the field in which they work. Each country has designed specific strategies in the field of adult education, as part of lifelong learning. Our research had the aim to highlight, beyond the type of training program for adults, the relationship between the communication style of trainers involved in adult education and the learning style of adult learners. In our research we used: a) the “Questionnaire S.C. (Analysis of Communication Style) b) the Romanian version of “Learning style Questionnaire”; c) non-directive interviews; d) statistical processing methods.  The results that came from the data allow us to see the influences of the trainers’ communicational style upon the learning style of adult learners during the training sessions. The conclusions are significant for developing proper vocational counselling programs for trainers that are involved in training adult learners.

scholarly journals Learning styles of millennial students at a pharmacy school in the Philippines

2020 ◽  
pp. 265-272
Author(s):  
Darwin I Carrido ◽  
Romeo-Luis F Ramirez
Keyword(s):  
Learning Styles ◽  
Learning Style ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Pharmacy Students ◽  
Instructional Approaches ◽  
Millennial Students ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
The Relationship

Background: The millennial generation already composes the majority of populations across different pharmacy schools in the Philippines. The need to explore millennial students’ learning styles and its governing factors thereby become more valuable in changing and innovating instructional approaches, designs, and strategies used in their learning environment. Aims: This study aimed to generally describe the learning styles of the millennial pharmacy students from a college institution in the Philippines using the Vermunt’s Inventory of Learning Styles (ILS). Specifically, it aimed to determine the appropriate approaches in response to the students’ learning styles, and the relationship between and among the variables of the study. Method: A quasi- experimental research design was employed in this study using online survey as the method of data collection. Descriptive statistical analysis was employed to analyse the data using Microsoft Office Excel 2013 and IBM Statistical Package for Social Sciences Statistics. Pearson’s correlation coefficient investigated the relationship between and among the independent and dependent variables, while t-test and one-way ANOVA tested for significant difference among groups. Results: There were 124 out of 168 students who participated in the study making the overall response rate at ~74%. The most prevalent learning style among the millennial pharmacy students enrolled in De La Salle Medical and Health Sciences Institute, College of Pharmacy is application- directed (3.85±0.46), followed by reproduction-directed (3.81±0.45), undirected (3.73±0.49) and lastly meaning-directed (3.52±0.54). The students’ perceived grades were significantly reflected by their learning styles. Conclusion: Results of this study may be used in increased capitalising and development of the learning style profile of millennial pharmacy students to application-directed approaches. Instructional approaches, designs and strategies must cater to how students learn effectively and strategically, and consider all possible governing factors that affect learning styles of students.

Relationship of Microcomputer-Based Instruction and Learning Style

1985 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 265-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolena L. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Learning Style ◽  
Instructional Process ◽  
Field Independent ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Field Dependent ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Instruction And Learning ◽  
Based Instruction ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

In this technological age, sight must not be lost in recognizing individual differences in applying technology to the instructional process. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between achievement of field-dependent and field-independent students using microcomputer instruction. T-test was calculated on mean posttest scores to analyze the difference between the groups. There was a significant difference at the 0.5 level in testing the null hypothesis of no difference between the groups in this study.

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