Cognitive styles and web-based instruction: Field Dependent/Independent vs. Holist/Serialist

Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2074-2079

  Clewley, Natalie ^a   Chen, Sherry Y ^a   Liu, Xiaohui ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognitive style; Data mining; Decision trees; Feature selection; User preferences; Web based instruction

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE STYLE; COGNITIVE STYLES; FEATURE SELECTION; FIELD INDEPENDENTS; WEB-BASED INSTRUCTIONS;

CYBERNETICS; DECISION TREES;

DATA MINING;

EID: 74849138680     PISSN: 1062922X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSMC.2009.5346314     Document Type: Conference Paper

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