Do Students Really Have Different Learning Styles?

Learning styles—the notion that each student has a particular mode by which he or she learns best, whether it’s visual, auditory or some other sense—is enormously popular. It’s also been thoroughly debunked.

The scientific research on learning styles is “so weak and unconvincing,” concluded a group of distinguished psychologists in a 2008 review, that it is not possible “to justify incorporating learning-styles assessments into general educational practice.” A 2010 article was even more blunt: “There is no credible evidence that learning styles exist,” wrote University of Virginia cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham and co-author Cedar Riener. While students do have preferences about how they learn, the evidence shows they absorb information just as well whether or not they encounter it in their preferred mode.

» via MindShift

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    Worth reading the full article!
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    I’m so tired of people throwing around the term “scientific research” to try and prove that all students learn the same....
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    From infoneer-pulse
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  19. teachplaysing reblogged this from shapefutures and added:
    ^Very much this. I’ve heard and agree with the idea of different learning styles being a myth. But having multiple ways...
  20. chrischelberg reblogged this from infoneer-pulse and added:
    Huh. I was a bit skeptical, but this makes me far more skeptical. (Also, you were righter dear) infoneer-pulse:
  21. stlouislearning reblogged this from gjmueller and added:
    Very interesting little article about learning styles. We at St. Louis Learning Center are always looking for new ways...
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    An activity to leave off the course schedule, perhaps?
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    Interesting!
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