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by Terretta
3 days ago
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> As a visual learner… This may be a myth. Big paper in 2009, but nobody's proved it's real in the 15 years since. In a 2009 review paper entitled Learning Styles: Concepts and Evidence, researchers investigated the “meshing hypothesis,” which is the idea that students learn better when instruction is provided in a format that matches their learning style. Their conclusion is a hard pill to swallow. “The contrast between the enormous popularity of the learning-styles approach within education and the lack of credible evidence for its utility is, in our opinion, striking and disturbing,” the researchers wrote. “If classfication of students’ learning styles has practical utility, it remains to be demonstrated.” 2009: https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/learning-... 2022: https://fee.org/articles/learning-styles-don-t-actually-exis... APA goes so far as to say (2019) believing in learning styles is detrimental: https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2019/05/learning-sty... |
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