Willingham: No evidence exists for learning style theories
My guest today is University of Virginia cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham, author of "Why Don’t Students Like School?"
By Daniel Willingham
This month another article was published reviewing the scientific literature on learning styles. It appeared in a journal calledPsychological Science in the Public Interest, published by theAssociation for Psychological Science.
By Daniel Willingham
This month another article was published reviewing the scientific literature on learning styles. It appeared in a journal calledPsychological Science in the Public Interest, published by theAssociation for Psychological Science.
This journal has an interesting premise. The editor recruits three or four top researchers to review the scientific literature on a complex topic of public import. The researchers must be knowledgeable, but not directly involved in prior research on the topic, so that they will be impartial.
The straightforward conclusion matched the one that I have drawn in the past—there is not evidence supporting any of the many learning style theories that have been proposed.
The straightforward conclusion matched the one that I have drawn in the past—there is not evidence supporting any of the many learning style theories that have been proposed.