Conceptions of Learning and Thinking Styles Among Deaf, Hard-of-Hearing, and Hearing Students

This study explores how students ' conceptions of learning relate to their thinking styles by administering the Conceptions of Learning Inventory III and the Thinking Styles Inventory-Revised II to 350 deaf or hard-of-hearing (DHH) and 463 hearing university students in mainland China. The reliabilities for the two inventories we re first estimated using Cronbach's alpha coefficients. Then, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was conducted to test the validity of the COL-III. Finally, to predict thinking styles from conceptions of learning, hierarchical multiple regressions were conducted. Results showed that, among both DH H and hearing students, qualitative conceptions of learning (understanding,personal change,continuous,social competence, andduty) were significantly positively assoc...

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