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W5: TEMPERAMENT-BASED LEARNING STYLES
Lecturer: Thomas Oakland, University of Florida, USA
Duration: Half day, Morning, August, 8, 2004
Fee: US $70

Learning styles reflect ways students learn with greatest ease and effectiveness. Temperament-based learning styles capture information as to the sources from which students derive energy and motivation, the nature of the information on which they rely when coding and storing what they learn, the personal qualities they find most reliable when making decisions, and when they make decisions.
This workshop will review the conditions that contribute to temperament, will discuss its use in motivating and grouping students, identifying important instructional methods, discovering important personal values, as well as identifying students who are likely to find school unrewarding. Lecture, discussion, and role play activities will be used to assist participants in first understanding their learning styles and then applying this information to assist them in understanding others.
The purposes of the workshop include the following:
1. acquire an understanding of current literature on learning styles
2. identify current methods to assess learning styles
3. identify four important temperament-based learning styles
4. know school-related strengths and weaknesses associated with each of the learning    
   styles,
5. be able to apply this information when assessing students
Keywords: learning style, temperament, student assessment

 

 
W6: STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING: BASIC CONCEPTS AND APPLICATIONS
Lecturer: Barbara Byrne, School of Psychology, University of Ottawa, Canada.
Duration: Half day, Morning, August 8, 2004
Fee: US $70

This workshop presents a nonmathematical introduction to the underlying rationale and basic concepts associated with structural equation modeling (SEM). It is developed around the presentation of generically-labelled models void of notation specific to particular SEM computer programs. Participants are shown how to: (a) Decompose basic models into linear structural equations that serve in specifying hypothesized models, (b) Evaluate the extent to which hypothesized models "fit" the data, and (c) Determine the need for, and assess, findings from post hoc model-fitting. Although designed for researchers having no knowledge of SEM, a basic knowledge of multiple regression is recommended and some knowledge of factor analysis may be helpful.
Keywords: structural equation modeling, SEM computer program, SEM application

 
 
W7: ASSESSMENTS OF EMOTIONAL STATES AND PERSONALITY
Lecturer: Charles Spielberger, University of South Florida, USA
Duration: Half day, Morning, August 8, 2004
Fee: US $70

Darwin observed that fear (anxiety) and rage (anger) were universal characteristics of both humans and animals, which have evolved over countless generations because these emotions mediate fight or flight reactions that facilitate successful adaptation and survival. Depression and curiosity are also widely recognized as universal emotions. The adverse effects of anxiety, anger and depression on behavior are clearly reflected in the frequency of psychiatric diagnoses of psychoneuroses, depression, and psychopathic disorders. People also differ in the intensity and the frequency that anxiety, anger, depression and curiosity are experienced, and how these emotions are expressed. This workshop will review the evolution and current status of anxiety, anger, depression and curiosity as psychological concepts, and the development of measures designed to assess these constructs as emotional states and personality traits. The construction and validation of psychometric measures of state and trait anxiety, depression, curiosity, and the experience, expression and control of anger will be described in detail in the context of a conception of stress as a transactional process. The utilization of these measures in professional practice, and in research on learning and medical conditions, such as hypertension and coronary heart disease, will also be examined in detail.
Keywords: assessment, emotions, personality


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