You have probably heard of them - you fill in a questionnaire to be told that you a 'visual learner' or an 'auditory learner,' a 'reflector' or a 'pragmatist,' a 'diverger' or a 'converger'? But ...

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 ...

In the vibrant tapestry of any classroom, students come equipped with diverse backgrounds, experiences, and unique ways of processing information. As educators, our responsibility lies not only in ...

Everyone has a different style of learning. Some people do well with reading the written word. Others learn better through audio. For some, sitting in a quiet library or home office space is key. For ...

Teachers’ beliefs matter for student learning—but myths about the brain can be easily spread and hard to dislodge. The vast majority of active and future teachers—and even more of the general public ...

It’s fun to learn what type of person you are. Personality tests and other pop cultural psychological categorizations like learning styles are marketed as tools meant to unlock a greater understanding ...

In her recent article “The Bunk of Debunking Learning Styles,” Heather Wolpert-Gawron makes a plea for common sense in the face of research findings that contradict her direct observations of learning ...