TY - GEN
T1 - Smart teaching quantitative topics through the VARK learning styles model
AU - Moazeni, Somayeh
AU - Pourmohammadi, Hamid
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Effective teaching concerns students' learning styles and its diversity. An adopted teaching strategy must be then aligned with students' learning traits. In this paper, to provide an effective in-classroom learning environment for most students, we propose to develop appropriate instructional presentation methods to match diversity of learning styles. We demonstrate how to align in-class instructions, such as quizzes and other in-class learning activities, with students' learning styles. Our discussion, which primarily focuses on quantitative topics, relies on research in education and applied psychology, and our teaching experience. Here, we utilize the Fleming's VARK learning style model. We then address some shortcomings of identifying students' learning styles through a generic questionnaire, and propose a scheme to dynamically infer them. This automatic student modeling approach can be easily adopted in distance education.
AB - Effective teaching concerns students' learning styles and its diversity. An adopted teaching strategy must be then aligned with students' learning traits. In this paper, to provide an effective in-classroom learning environment for most students, we propose to develop appropriate instructional presentation methods to match diversity of learning styles. We demonstrate how to align in-class instructions, such as quizzes and other in-class learning activities, with students' learning styles. Our discussion, which primarily focuses on quantitative topics, relies on research in education and applied psychology, and our teaching experience. Here, we utilize the Fleming's VARK learning style model. We then address some shortcomings of identifying students' learning styles through a generic questionnaire, and propose a scheme to dynamically infer them. This automatic student modeling approach can be easily adopted in distance education.
KW - Automatic student modeling
KW - Learning styles
KW - Matching learning and teaching styles
KW - VARK model
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U2 - 10.1109/ISECon.2013.6525222
DO - 10.1109/ISECon.2013.6525222
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84879905955
SN - 9781467356244
T3 - ISEC 2013 - 3rd IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference
BT - ISEC 2013 - 3rd IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference
T2 - 3rd IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference, ISEC 2013
Y2 - 9 March 2013 through 9 March 2013
ER -