Kolb's inventory showed no association with medical career choices, and its personality-type predictions were contradicted¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · review r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 1985 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · overdue for a recheck since 1988: tool and model accuracy changes quickly
Evidence quality · No study behind this claim is a peer-reviewed article with a DOI: it rests on an ERIC document (a report, conference paper or thesis). It is kept because 3 design pages cite it; treat it as a lead to check, not an established finding.

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Convergence students scored higher on social acceptability, contradicting Kolb's expected theoretical, internal control and independence factors. → Tamaoka 1985

Evidence¶

Tamaoka 1985¶

Tamaoka, Katsuo. (1985). Historical Development of Learning Style Inventories from Dichotomous Cognitive Concepts of Field Dependence and Field Independence to Multi-Dimensional Assessment. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED339729

q2 · i? · the article prints no effect size for this finding · review · r2

The review reports West's 1982 study relating Kolb's styles to seven personality factors, where Convergence students' higher social acceptability scores contradicted the expected theoretical, internal control and independence factors, leading West to question the categories' accuracy.

"students in the category of the Convergence learning style had significantly higher scores on the personality factor of social acceptability dimension while no other significant differences were found."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

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