How Well do Patients With Traumatic Brain Injury Learn New Material Using Learning Styles in Online Science Classrooms? (CVD)

Center for Vision Development, New Market, Maryland

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Brain Injuries; Brain Injury, Chronic; Traumatic Brain Injury; Brain Injuries, Traumatic; Injury, Brain, Traumatic

Treatments: Behavioral: CLSI - Unknown; Behavioral: CLSI, MI, CR

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01417468

CVDMaryland-001

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine whether learning styles are effective in the treatment of traumatic brain injury (TBI) in an educational environment.

Full description

The purpose of this study is to determine the learning outcome and effectiveness of instructional design strategy using Canfield's learning styles and Gardner's Multiple Intelligences to accommodate TBI-induced cognitive impairments in an online science learning environment.

Enrollment: 30 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 50 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. People who have been diagnosed with Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI).
2. People who are able to understand and sign an informed consent form.
3. People who have no other known neurological disorder (e.g. aphasia, stroke).
4. All participants must be 18-50 years old.
5. Be able to speak and understand English, and
6. Have use of a computer (Mac or Windows) and internet (www) access.

Exclusion criteria

1. Don't meet the inclusion Criteria
2. Other known neurological disorder (e.g. aphasia, stroke).

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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30 participants in 2 patient groups

CLSI - Known

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will be assigned to a specific learning group via the Canfield Learning Style Inventory (CLSI).

Treatment:

Behavioral: CLSI, MI, CR

CLSI - Unknown

Active Comparator group

Description:

Participants will be assigned to a traditional learning group (Control).

Treatment:

Behavioral: CLSI - Unknown