Responsibility and Task Structuring as the Basic Attributes of Learning Styles and Their Relation Towards Consistency and the Quality of Hierarchy of a Learner’s Mind Map

• Authors: Jana Duchovičová , Nina Kozárová
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The study focuses on the identification of the relationship between the learning style and mental representation of curriculum content. The research problem identifies the relationship between the learning style factors - responsibility and task structuring and the selected categories of curriculum content representation - consistency and the quality of hierarchy identified through mind mapping. For the purposes of the research, we used the LSI Questionnaire by R. Dunn, K. Dunn and G. E. Price, a mind mapping test and chi-square statistics were used for the evaluation of research findings. The research sample consisted of 115 respondents. By means of analysis, we found out that a learning style in the observed factors of responsibility and task structuring does not influence students’ mental representation of the curriculum content.

Keywords

EN

learning style; mind map; mental representation of curriculum content; semantic net; text structuring; responsibility; task structuring

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Acta Technologica Dubnicae
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 6
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 29-46

Dates

published

2016-08-01

online

2016-08-20

Contributors

author

Jana Duchovičová

• Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Faculty of Education, Department of Pedagogy, Nitra, Slovakia

author

Nina Kozárová

• Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Faculty of Education, Department of Pedagogy, Nitra, Slovakia

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/atd-2016-0010