Scores on the VARK suggested that most students used multiple learning styles (e.g., visual + kinesthetic or reading/writing + visual + auditory), but that no particular style (or combination of styles) resulted in better outcomes than another. Researchers also tracked their performance in both the lecture and lab components of the course. More than 400 students completed the VARK (visual, auditory, reading/writing, kinesthetic) learning styles evaluation and reported details about the techniques they used for mastering material outside of class (e.g., flash cards, review of lecture notes, anatomy coloring books). To explore this possibility, Hussman and O’Loughlin asked students enrolled in an anatomy class to complete an online learning styles assessment and answer questions about their study strategies. It also raises the possibility that learning styles do matter-perhaps a match between students’ individual learning styles and their study strategies is the key to optimal outcomes. That might explain why instructional style in the classroom matters little. But is the classroom really where most of the serious learning occurs? Some might argue that, in this era of flipped classrooms and online course materials, students master more of the information on their own. Most previous investigations on learning styles focused on classroom learning, and assessed whether instructional style impacted outcomes for different types of learners. Research by Polly Hussman and Valerie Dean O’Loughlin at Indiana University takes a new look at this important question. It is clear that people have a strong sense of their own learning preferences (e.g., visual, kinesthetic, intuitive), but it is less clear that these preferences matter. In fact, there are several studies that contradict this belief. A recent review of the scientific literature on learning styles found scant evidence to clearly support the idea that outcomes are best when instructional techniques align with individuals’ learning styles.
Just because a notion is popular, however, doesn’t make it true. Indeed the notion that people learn in different ways is such a pervasive belief in American culture that there is a thriving industry dedicated to identifying learning styles and training teachers to meet the needs of different learners. This preference for one approach over another when learning new information is not uncommon.
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Think owner’s manual versus IKEA instructions. My husband, on the other hand, prefers to study the diagrams and then jump right in. I read the instructions from start to finish, and then reread and execute each step.
When it comes to home projects, I am a step-by-step kind of girl.
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