Matching Teaching Style to Learning Style May Not Help Students

"Learning styles" research has been vastly oversold as a teaching tool, four psychologists argue in a new paper.   The four psychologists argue that there is no strongscientific evidence to support the "matching" idea, they contend in apaper published this week in Psychological Science in the Public Interest. And there is absolutely no reason for professors to adopt it in the classroom.

Read the short article in the Chronicle of Higher of Education. There is a nice chart of 4 Different Models of How Students Learn. Here is a link to the orginal paper in Psychological Science in the Public Interest, though the paper is still in press.