Location
Treasure Island Inn Daytona Beach, Florida
Description
This study emerged as a natural outgrowth of quarterly faculty meetings conducted in accordance with suggestions contained in the Faculty Academic Orientation Manual (FOAM). On a routine basis topics of interest would be discussed regarding the institution and the latest administrative changes in general to an area of specific concern in particular. These special interest areas would cover such topics as assessment and grading policies, faculty responsibilities, course evaluation and teaching techniques.
In time it became readily apparent that student input reflecting their attitudes on some of these teaching characteristics would give clearer meaning and importance to these dimensions. It was also believed that we needed to discover what learning styles were dominant to these adult learners at this military training complex. Accordingly, a relatively straightforward inventory of learning style was incorporated in a survey questionnaire investigating a cluster of learning components, instructor characteristics and student preferences for both teaching method and learning mode. The survey was distributed to all active students enrolled at the Keesler Resident Center during the February - March 1993 time frame.
Teaching Characteristics, Learning styles and the Adult Learner: A Keesler Perspective
Treasure Island Inn Daytona Beach, Florida
This study emerged as a natural outgrowth of quarterly faculty meetings conducted in accordance with suggestions contained in the Faculty Academic Orientation Manual (FOAM). On a routine basis topics of interest would be discussed regarding the institution and the latest administrative changes in general to an area of specific concern in particular. These special interest areas would cover such topics as assessment and grading policies, faculty responsibilities, course evaluation and teaching techniques.
In time it became readily apparent that student input reflecting their attitudes on some of these teaching characteristics would give clearer meaning and importance to these dimensions. It was also believed that we needed to discover what learning styles were dominant to these adult learners at this military training complex. Accordingly, a relatively straightforward inventory of learning style was incorporated in a survey questionnaire investigating a cluster of learning components, instructor characteristics and student preferences for both teaching method and learning mode. The survey was distributed to all active students enrolled at the Keesler Resident Center during the February - March 1993 time frame.