teaching pedagogies

Matching Teaching Style to Learning Style May Not Help Students

Submitted by DrBruceHerbert on Wed, 12/23/2009 - 3:00pm

"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 More »

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