Learning Styles of Hospitality Students and Faculty Members

Learning-styles of Hospitality Students: Do Career Interests Make Differences in Learning-styles?

“…This is consistent with the general findings of gender differences from Berger (1983) and Hsu and Wolfe's (2003) studies in hospitality literature. Keri (2002) also examined gender differences in learning-styles for college students and determined the same results.…”

“…Only selected results are presented in Kolb (1984) suggests that students find a way to develop their abilities to learn in multiple manners. The best learners are the ones who can utilize all different learning-styles (Hsu & Wolfe, 2003 …”

“…It Several studies have investigated learning-style issues in the hospitality industry (Bagdan & Boger, 2000;Berger, 1983;Hsu, 1997Hsu, /1998Hsu, 1999;Hsu, Smith, & Finley, 1991;Hsu & Wolfe, 2003;Wong, Pine, & Tsang, 2000 (Felder, 1996;Hsu, 1999;Kolb, 1984). …”

The Influence of Learning Style on Hospitality and Tourism Students' Preference for Web Assignments

“…These individuals prefer to find practical uses for ideas. This finding was supported by Hsu and Wolfe (2003) who found that the majority of hospitality management students surveyed in Hong Kong were convergers. Males preferred abstract concepts and active experimentation more than females.…”

Who's Your Teacher Now? Issues Surrounding the Dimensions of Hospitality Management Educators

“…Furthermore, research has also surfaced on faculty perspectives about various topics. For example, faculty's perceptions of hospitality research initiatives and efforts have been measured in several articles (Schmidgall, Woods & Rutherford, 1996;Cobanoglu & Moreo, 2001;Cobanoglu, Moreo & Wood, 2002), as well as faculty's views on student learning styles and approaches (Partlow & Woods, 1995;Groves, 2003;Deale, 2003;Hsu & Wolfe, 2003). Additionally, research in the area of evaluating hospitality educators' profession has uncovered and detailed faculty workloads and outputs achieved by educators Gregoire & Partlow, 2002;Johanson & Woods, 2002) as well as how much faculty earn in direct pay or have received in fringe benefits (Johanson & Woods, 2002;Fried, Milman & Pizam, 1998;Knutson & Schmidgall, 1993).…”