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Learning styles yet again
Sometimes the press gets something right on the $$. Julie Henry of the Great Britian (UK) Sunday Telegraph did in her coverage of efforts to thwart the spread of fertalizer about learning styles. Writing under the headline “Professor pans ‘learning style’ teaching method,” Ms. Henry has this lead:
Hear! Hear! See! See! Touch! Touch! Feel! Feel! Smell! Smell! Taste! Taste! Intuit! Intuit!
There are two points in Ms. Henry’s coverage I’d like to correct: First, the learning style movement is not new; Lester Mann covered the history of the idea in his marvelous book, On the Trail of Process (ISBN-10: 0808911376; ISBN-13: 978-0808911371). Second, the story over-emphasizes modality preference; herein is one of the problems with the literature on the topic: Some of the literature examines whether people express preferences (they can and do) but the more important matter, as I see it, is not whether they have preferences but whether adapting instruction to the purported style (whether established by preference assessment or some other means) improves their outcomes.
Despite these minor objections, hooray for Ms. Henry’s coverage. Read her entire story here. Check here for additional entries at LD Blog that refer to the matter of learning styles.
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