The Effects of Matching and Mismatching Students' Mobility Preferences on Recognition and Memory Tasks.

AbstractThe purpose of this study was to examine the effects of matching and mismatching students' mobility preferences on recognition and memory tasks. The investigation employed a broadly conceived structural model based on identification of each student's learning style characteristics, congruent and incongruent instructional environments, and analysis of variance procedures. The design was a split-plot factorial with Sex and Mobility as between factors and Environment as the within factor. The only significant effect was the Preference X Environment interaction. The examination revealed that (a) Mobility-preferenced students performed significantly better in the active environment than in the passive environment; (b) passive-preferenced students performed significantly better in the passive environment than in the active one; (c) active- and passive-preferenced students did not differ significantly in the passive environment, although the passive-preferenced students performed slightly better than the...