Focus on architectural design process through learning styles

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2003-09
Authors
Demirbas, O. O.
Demirkan, H.
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Design Studies
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0142-694X
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Pergamon Press
Volume
24
Issue
5
Pages
437 - 456
Language
English
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Learning as an interactive process is an important issue in architectural design education. This study aims to focus on architectural design process through learning styles that are 'accommodating', 'diverging', 'assimilating' and 'converging' as stated in the Experiential Learning Theory of Kolb. A research was conducted to evaluate the effects of learning style preferences on the performance of design students in a design process. It was found that there were statistically significant differences between the performance scores of students having diverse learning styles at various stages of design process. Also, it was found that performance scores of all students having different learning styles had increased at the end of the design process where the progress of assimilating learners were the highest and accommodating learners the lowest.

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