More Required Reading: Learning Style and Personal vs Personalized Learning
Think your student has a specific "learning style?" This thoughtful NY Times op-ed gathers a variety of voices on this issue. Is learning style the same as a learning disability? How much weight can/should teachers give this issue? Students do have preferences when it comes to receiving information visually or verbally, said Mark A. McDaniel, a psychology professor at Washington University and a co-author of the book “ Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning .” And, said Harold Pashler, a psychology professor at the University of California, San Diego, and one of Dr. McDaniel’s co-authors on the study, no compelling evidence for teaching to students’ learning styles has emerged in the years since: “There’s one or two somewhat oddball studies,” he said, “but there’s a number of new negative findings that are more substantial.”