If you’ve ever sat through a teaching seminar, you’ve probably heard a lecture about “learning styles.” Perhaps you were told that some students are visual learners, some are auditory learners, and ...

Teaching to different learning styles, such as visual or auditory, has become widely popular in education. As educators struggle to define effective 21st-century instruction, one practice that many ...

When Associate Professor and Chemical Education Researcher Danaè Quirk Dorr noticed a correlation between student learning styles and achievement in her large organic chemistry course, she decided to ...

A prevalent argument in the education research community is that learning styles hugely influence how well students will do in school. The learning styles theory argues that individuals learn best in ...

A recent trending education topic is the idea that Learning Styles is a neuroscience myth, like other myths: we only use 10% of our brain, and that drinking less than six to eight glasses of water a ...

Whenever I speak to audiences about the science of learning, as I’ve been doing a lot this fall, one topic always comes up in the Q&A; sessions that follow my talk: learning styles. Learning ...

For as long as I can remember, I’ve been the type of learner who needs to see information laid out visually to understand how it fits together. It’s how I best retain information. I guess I’m just one ...

Proponents of the learning-style theory believe that effective instruction requires “diagnosing individuals’ learning style and tailoring instruction accordingly,” according to the report. It notes ...