A Contribution to Validation of Score Meaning for Felder- Soloman's Index of Learning Styles
By Malgorzata S. Zywno. 2003
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In 1988, Richard Felder and Linda Silverman developed a learning model that focuses specifically on aspects of learning styles of engineering students. Three years later, a corresponding psychometric assessment instrument, the Felder-Soloman’s Index of Learning Styles, was developed. This paper offers a contribution to an ongoing validation work on the ILS instrument, based on the author’s three-year study of the relationship between student learning styles and their academic achievement in hypermedia-assisted learning environment. The paper provides an analysis of psychometric properties of the ILS, based on the scores for 557 valid questionnaires collected in the study. This includes test-retest reliability, factor structure, internal reliability, total item correlation and inter-scale correlation. Construct validity is also discussed. In summary, the author supports conclusions found in the literature pointing to the ILS as a suitable psychometric tool for evaluating learning styles of engineering students. The author also concurs in recommendations for further work on validating the meaning of its scores and on improving the specific items to reduce inter-scale correlation.
Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education
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- Student Learning Styles Adaptation Method Based on Teaching Strategies and Electronic Media (2008, background): “…(Carver, Howard & Lane, 1999), (Hong & Kinshuk, 2004), (Paredes & Rodriguez, 2002), it has been approved by it’s author and other specialists (Zywno, 2003) (Felder & Spurlin, 2005), it is user friendly and the results are easy to interpret, the number of dimensions is controlled and can…”
- An Investigation into the Factors Affecting the Use of Language Learning Strategies by Persian EFL Learners. (2008, methodology): “Next, to determine the participants’ learning style, Soloman and Felder’s (2001) Learning Style Questionnaire that had been further validated by Zywno (2003) was utilized.”