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A note on Learning Styles While the idea that individual learners have their own unique learning style has been popularized, this notion that learning style is “trait-based” (Kolb and Kolb, 2017) can ...
“Learning styles” research has been vastly oversold as a teaching tool, four psychologists argue in a new paper.
The Academy of Management Review, Vol. 5, No. 3 (Jul., 1980), pp. 445-447 (3 pages) A learning style theory [Kolb, 1971] has been used for theory building, research, and to provide pedagogical advice.
Kolb's reply to our critique of his learning style theory and Learning Style Inventory (LSI) inappropriately overgeneralizes our criticisms of the LSI to all experiential learning theories, excuses ...
In recent years, numerous studies have found no concrete evidence to support the notion that matching classroom teaching methods to a student's so-called "learning style" significantly improves ...