Faculty Articles
Assessment of cognitive style to examine students' use of hypermedia within historic costume
Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Home Economics Research Journal
ISSN
0046-7774
Publication Date
1993
Abstract
The major purpose of this study was to examine the relationship of fashion merchandising or education students' cognitive style consisting of nine dimensions to three media choices provided through a hypermedia lesson in historic costume. High-average standard scores were identified in three of the nine dimensions of cognitive style. Further statistical analyses indicated that students' cognitive styles affected the type of media selected. Both fashion merchandising and education students scored significantly higher (p = .01) on the postassessments than the pre-assessments, but neither group achieved significantly more than the other. From these data, it appeared that students used hypermedia effectively as an educational tool to accommodate learning style. It was possible to individualize instruction regardless of the learning style when the hypermedia system was used within the same instructional package.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/0046777493214004
Volume
21
Issue
4
NSUWorks Citation
Frey, Diane and Simonson, Michael, "Assessment of cognitive style to examine students' use of hypermedia within historic costume" (1993). Faculty Articles. 119.
https://nsuworks.nova.edu/fse_facarticles/119