How can an understanding of cognitive styles enable trainee teachers to have a better understanding of differention in the classroom? by Carol Evans, Michael Waring

“…The relationship between cognitive style and trainee teacher conceptions of differentiation was studied to develop appropriate scaffolding of their learning. 149 trainee teachers enrolled on 1 year postgraduate initial teacher education (ITE) programmes at two UK universities completed the Cognitive Style Index (Allinson and Hayes, Journal of Management Studies, 33(1):119–135, 1996;Hodgkinson and Sadler-Smith, Journal ofOccupational and Organisational Psychology, 76(2):243–268, 2003) and a questionnaire exploring their understanding of differentiation, conceptions of learning and learning preferences. …”
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