Summary and Literature Review. Although learning style models have been existence for decades, its age has had little impact on its continuing popularity in the classroom. Traditionally learning styles have been incorporated into the classroom: To help increase student achievement (Gardner, 1985; Slavin, 2000; Woolfolk, 1998); To “focus exclusively on remediating students’ weaknesses” (Dunn, Griggs, & Gorman, 1995). One current innovative study by Mukaddes Erdem examined the effects of learning style profiles on the quality of work produced collaboratively. Using Kolb’s LSI, the...

Summary and Literature Review. Dramatic changes in the teaching environment are occurring in higher education due to recent unprecedented instructor transformations. Professors, used to communicating in the Queen’s English, have suddenly and without provocation adopted a new stylized and acronym-driven communication method that is rapidly being adopted in the classroom. Students, in fact, are struggling to catch up. Translation websites are popping up everywhere. Research in the use of this classroom communication method has shown controversial conclusions. Some of these include: the inability...

Summary and Literature Review. The use of Multiple-Choice Questions for course assessment has been a controversial topic for many decades because of the significant evidence of its many disadvantages. Some of these include: the inability of the instructor to be privy to the reasoning behind why an answer is selected; student guessing influencing evidence on whether a student understands the knowledge topic; the inability of the instructor to know how much a student understands the knowledge topic; and students feeling there is less to study because of the MCQ format. Current studies that are trying...

Summary and Literature Review Student Response Systems Technology, shortened to SRS technology, provides instructors with a way to enhance student participation. Clickers, the predominant “face” of SRS technology, is a hand-held remote control device that allows for anonymous responses to questions posed by the instructor. Using the remote device, students press a button that corresponds to their responses to a screen-projected multiple-choice question. The class distribution of responses are then displayed. Considerable research in the use of SRS has been done in economics, physics, and...