430 research outputs found
New directions with styles research: Applying styles research to educational practice
No full text? Using cognitive and learning styles in educational practice. ? Conceptual, methodological, and practical evolutions within the styles field. ? The role of styles in developing metacognition and self-regulation in learners. ? Styles relationships to individual learning differences
Editorial. Building learning capacity for life. Supporting life-long learning journeys through the stimulation of reflexivity in learners: five complementary perspectives
No full textThe articles in this special issue of Reflecting Education: Building Learning Capacity for Life emanated from the eighteenth international Education, Learning, Styles, Individual differences Network (ELSIN) conference held in Billund, Denmark in 2013. ELSIN is the only multidisciplinary international research organisation specifically promoting the importance of work on styles and other individual learning differences within educational and workplace contexts. The five articles comprising this special issue are representative of the broad focus of ELSIN in their coverage of a range of contexts. Participants of the present studies do not only originate from institutes in different countries (Austria, Belgium, Canada, Germany, and Ireland), but also represent diverse education levels (school students; under-postgraduates in higher education), and a variety of disciplines (e.g., accountancy; business and economics; management; multimedia and communications)
Learning in higher education – how cognitive and learning styles matter
No full textThe cognitive and learning styles research domain is a highly complex one which has recently been the focus of rigour–relevance debates (Coffield et al. 2004; Evans and Sadler-Smith 2006; Rayner 2006). There is considerable support for the existence and value of style as a construct (Sternberg 1996) even though further work is needed to evidence greater impact on practice. This paper shares the work and experiences of one international research community – the European Learning Styles Information Network (ELSIN) and its attempts to advance understanding of the theory and application of cognitive and learning styles in higher education and other contexts. In so doing it highlights the principles around the development, collation and integration of research as exemplified by the ELSIN experience and considered by other research domains in higher education. Future directions for cognitive and learning styles research within the context of higher education are outlined along with the role of ELSIN in highlighting and leading on these
Taking a style perspective to understand organizational behavior: a four-decade review
No full textTo study whether public sector employees are a different type of employee with different expectations than the private sector employees, we look at differences in the generic dimensions of their psychological contract. Data from a survey of 4956 Belgian employees show that, compared to private sector employees, public sector employees attach less importance to career development opportunities and financial rewards promises, and perceive these promises as less fulfilled. They also perceive social atmosphere and work–life balance as less fulfilled. Furthermore, we observed significant gender differences in the importance and fulfilment of the psychological contract
Using styles for more effective learning in multicultural and e?learning environments
No full textPurpose– The purpose of this paper is to introduce this special issue, which contains selected papers from the 13th Annual European Learning Styles Information Network (ELSIN) conference held in Ghent, Belgium in June 2008. One of the key aims of ELSIN is to promote understanding of individual learning and cognitive differences through the dissemination of international multidisciplinary research about learning and cognitive styles and strategies of learning and thinking.Design/methodology/approach– Three papers within this special issue consider how style differences can inform the development of e?learning opportunities to enhance the learning of all (Vigentini; Kyprianidou, Demetriadis, Pombortsis and Karatasios; Zhu, Valcke and Schellens). The influence of culture on learning is also raised in the paper of Zhu et al. and those of Sulimma and Eaves which both focus more directly on cultural influences on style, learning and teaching.Findings– A number of key themes permeate the studies included in this special edition such as: the nature of styles; the intrinsic difficulty of isolating style variables from other variables impacting on performance; inherent difficulties in choosing the most appropriate style measures; the potential of e?learning to attend to individual learning differences; the role of culture in informing attitudes and access to learning; the development of constructivist learning environments to support learning through an understanding of individual differences and most importantly how one can apply such insights about individual differences to inform and enhance instruction.Originality/value– The papers in this special issue contribute to enhanced knowledge about the value of style differences to design constructive learning environments in multicultural and e?learning contexts
sj-docx-1-sph-10.1177_19417381211051643 – Supplemental material for Association Between Spikes in External Training Load and Shoulder Injuries in Competitive Adolescent Tennis Players: The SMASH Cohort Study
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-sph-10.1177_19417381211051643 for Association Between Spikes in External Training Load and Shoulder Injuries in Competitive Adolescent Tennis Players: The SMASH Cohort Study by Fredrik Johansson, Ann Cools, Tim Gabbett, Jaime Fernandez-Fernandez and Eva Skillgate in Sports Health: A Multidisciplinary Approach</p
Servicekwaliteit met betrekking tot pakketbezorging aan huis
No full textE-commerce is tegenwoordig een bekend begrip en een veelgebruikte digitale toepassing. Om e-commerce draaiende te houden zijn pakketbezorgingsdiensten nodig die de pakketjes naar de klant brengen. De wereldwijde e-commerce verkoop is de afgelopen jaren gestegen, voornamelijk vanwege het gemak dat consumenten ervaren door hun goederen online te bestellen, waar en wanneer ze willen. De COVID-19 pandemie heeft aanzienlijke veranderingen teweeggebracht in de wereld van pakketbezorging. Tijdens de lockdowns en sluitingen van fysieke winkels, nam online winkelen een hoge vlucht. Dit zorgde voor een explosieve groei in de vraag naar pakketbezorging, wat een grote druk legde op de bezorgdiensten. Zelfs na heropening van de fysieke winkels, bleef de voorkeur voor online bestellen bestaan. De pandemie heeft ook de verwachtingen van consumenten veranderd; snelle levering binnen 24 uur wordt vaak als standaard gezien. Tegelijkertijd groeit de voorkeur voor bezorgopties zoals postpunten of pakketkluizen, wat wijst op een behoefte aan meer flexibiliteit in de bezorging
Servicekwaliteit met betrekking tot pakketbezorging aan huis
No full textE-commerce is tegenwoordig een bekend begrip en een veelgebruikte digitale toepassing. Om e-commerce draaiende te houden zijn pakketbezorgingsdiensten nodig die de pakketjes naar de klant brengen. De wereldwijde e-commerce verkoop is de afgelopen jaren gestegen, voornamelijk vanwege het gemak dat consumenten ervaren door hun goederen online te bestellen, waar en wanneer ze willen. De COVID-19 pandemie heeft aanzienlijke veranderingen teweeggebracht in de wereld van pakketbezorging. Tijdens de lockdowns en sluitingen van fysieke winkels, nam online winkelen een hoge vlucht. Dit zorgde voor een explosieve groei in de vraag naar pakketbezorging, wat een grote druk legde op de bezorgdiensten. Zelfs na heropening van de fysieke winkels, bleef de voorkeur voor online bestellen bestaan. De pandemie heeft ook de verwachtingen van consumenten veranderd; snelle levering binnen 24 uur wordt vaak als standaard gezien. Tegelijkertijd groeit de voorkeur voor bezorgopties zoals postpunten of pakketkluizen, wat wijst op een behoefte aan meer flexibiliteit in de bezorging
Choice for an Entrepreneurial Career: Do Cognitive Styles Matter?
No full textUpon graduation, students make the decision to either become an entrepreneur or an employee. Numerous studies have thus investigated personal and environmental factors that impact this decision. As cognitive styles have become more and more important in determining individual and organisational behaviour, and as they are presumed to provide new valuable insights over and above other personal factors, they provide the ideal focus to further explore this career choice. In this article, we aim to explore how creating, planning, and knowing cognitive style relate to entrepreneurial attitudes, intentions, and career choices. Using the Theory of Planned Behaviour, in a first sample, we investigate the direct and indirect impact that cognitive styles have on entrepreneurial intention through attitudes. In our second sample, we look at how career preferences for entrepreneurship or a more traditional career as an employee are affected by cognitive styles. Using structural equation modelling analysis, this study finds evidence for the importance of creating cognitive style on entrepreneurial outcomes. Additionally, we find evidence for the relationship between planning cognitive style and wanting to be an employee. Knowing style does not lead to either preference. This paper extends the current knowledge on cognitive styles and entrepreneurship by analysing the impact of other cognitive styles than the predominantly used innovative styles and by also exploring its impact on important antecedents of entrepreneurial intentions, such as entrepreneurial attitude and career preferences.status: Published onlin
Large Time Step and DC Stable TD-EFIE Discretized with Implicit Runge-Kutta Methods
No full textThe time domain-electric field integral equation (TD-EFIE) and its differentiated version are widely used to simulate the transient scattering of a time dependent electromagnetic field by a perfect electric conductor (PEC). The time discretization of the TD-EFIE can be achieved by a space-time Galerkin approach or, as it is considered in this contribution, by a convolution quadrature using implicit Runge-Kutta methods. The solution is then computed using the marching-on-in-time (MOT) algorithm. The differentiated TD-EFIE has two problems: 1) the system matrix suffers from ill-conditioning when the time step increases (low frequency breakdown) and 2) it suffers from the DC instability, i.e., the formulation allows for the existence of spurious solenoidal currents that grow slowly in the solution. In this article, we show that 1) and 2) can be alleviated by leveraging quasi-Helmholtz projectors to separate the Helmholtz components of the induced current and rescale them independently. The efficacy of the approach is demonstrated by numerical examples including benchmarks and real-life applications.Numerical Analysi
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