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 ...

If you’ve ever sat through a teaching seminar, you’ve probably heard a lecture about “learning styles.” Perhaps you were told that some students are visual learners, some are auditory learners, and ...

Promoting learning in our children is paramount to their success, but we have to be keen on how best they learn. The way a person prefers to absorb, process, comprehend and retain information is ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The notion of "learning styles"-- that ...

Eminent academics from worlds of neuroscience, education and psychology voice concerns over popularity of method Teaching children according to their individual “learning style” does not achieve ...

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 it comes to home projects, I am a step-by-step kind of girl. I read the instructions from start to finish, and then reread and execute each step. My husband, on the other hand, prefers to study ...