Matching Teaching Style to Learning Style May Not Help Students - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Almost certainly, you were told that your instruction should match your students' styles. For example, kinesthetic learners--students who learn best through hands-on activities--are said to do better in classes that feature plenty of experiments, while verbal learners are said to do worse.
Now four psychologists argue that you were told wrong. There is no strong scientific evidence to support the "matching" idea, they contend in a paper published this week in Psychological Science in the Public Interest. And there is absolutely no reason for professors to adopt it in the classroom.
Almost certainly, you were told that your instruction should match your students' styles. For example, kinesthetic learners--students who learn best through hands-on activities--are said to do better in classes that feature plenty of experiments, while verbal learners are said to do worse.
Now four psychologists argue that you were told wrong. There is no strong scientific evidence to support the "matching" idea, they contend in a paper published this week in Psychological Science in the Public Interest. And there is absolutely no reason for professors to adopt it in the classroom.
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