Enhancing Visibility of Students' Learning Styles for Talent Development Using Actual and Ideal School Drawings

Autor/in	Armstrong, Dorothy Ciner
Titel	Enhancing Visibility of Students' Learning Styles for Talent Development Using Actual and Ideal School Drawings
Quelle	(2004), (54 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Teaching Methods; Grade 8; Grade 4; Cognitive Style; Talent Development; Gifted; Childrens Art; Freehand Drawing; Learning Strategies; Grade 3; Research Design; Academic Aptitude; Reliability + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; School year 08; 8. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 08; School year 04; 4. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 04; Cognitive styles; Kognitiver Stil; Begabtenförderung; Talentförderung; Begabter, Hoch Begabter; Drawing; Zeichnen; Learning methode; Learning techniques; Lernmethode; Lernstrategie; School year 03; 3. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 03; Forschungsdesign; Reliabilität
Abstract	As the field of gifted education has increasingly embraced broader definitions of giftedness, teachers and specialists in the education of the gifted and talented need additional ways to assess the talent development needs of a broader array of students. Since learning styles comprise an important component of any comprehensive talent development plan, teachers need efficient ways to learn each student's preferences. The two studies reported here explored the consistency with which school drawings revealed a student's learning style preferences. They extended the work of Knoff and Prout with children's actual school drawings to add an ideal school drawing as well as 19 learning style questions. In Study 1 eighth grade students (n=125) and students in third and fourth grade (n=229) in Study 2 completed actual and ideal school drawings twice with a three-month interval between administrations. The results showed that the students selected their learning style preferences with consistency within and across trials. While developed for use in talent development programming for high ability students, these studies showed that the drawings could successfully be used with the broad spectrum of students found within any classroom to enhance their talent development. (Contains 2 figures and 6 tables.) (Author).
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10