Imagine that a struggling college freshman confides in you that they are having difficulty learning the material in one of their classes. When you ask what specific problems they are having, the ...

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 ...

Why teachers love a concept research has yet to embrace. The concept of learning styles is an interesting educational phenomenon. That differences between students influence how they learn 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 ...

The VAK learning styles myth rests on three problematic assumptions (e.g., Kirschner, 2016), each having research to refute them. Assumption 1: The learner has a dominant sensory modality. This ...

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 ...