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Revista Latinoamericana de Psicología
Print version ISSN 0120-0534
Abstract
TINAJERO, Carolina; CASTELO, Alba; GUISANDE, Adelina and PARAMO, Fernanda. Adaptive Teaching and Field Dependence-Independence: Instructional Implications. rev.latinoam.psicol. [online]. 2011, vol.43, n.3, pp.497-510. ISSN 0120-0534.
Cognitive styles are among the dimensions of individual differences considered particularly relevant in adaptive teaching. Field dependence-independence is one of the most heuristic cognitive style constructs and has been shown consistently to determine academic results of students, regardless of their educational level or cultural origin and the area of knowledge considered. This fact has prompted attempts to train field independence and a thriving line of investigation focused on the adaptation of instructional methods to cognitive style, which has been offering data which should be considered in educational practice. Studies made to date both on training and instructional adaptation have been gathered and synthesized in the present revision, and some general lines of action when adapting teaching to cognitive style have been extracted.
Keywords : cognitive style; field dependence-independence; adaptive teaching.