Learning styles

• What varies among people in the context of learning?

  How they learn
• What should improve learning by aligning to a student's learning style?

  Matching teaching
• How do verbalisers prefer to process information?

  Verbally, by hearing or reading
• How do verbalisers remember best?

  Repeating sounds or writing
• How do visualisers prefer to process information?

  Visually, by seeing relationships
• What tools help visual learners to remember information?

  Diagrams, mind maps, graphs, charts
• What kind of information do visual learners find hard to process?

  Written information
• What kind of learner is a kinaesthetic learner?

  A 'hands-on' learner
• What do kinaesthetic learners prefer to do?

  Active exploration and experimenting
• What kind of activities do kinaesthetic learners prefer?

  Physical activities
• What have learning styles encouraged teachers to do?

  Focus on other teaching methods
• What kind of approach has teachers adopting a more varied approach led to?

  More varied approach
• What has benefited their students learning?

  More varied approach
• What does evidence suggest about learning styles?

  Little evidence they work
• What did Pashler et al. find in their review of research studies on learning styles?

  No support for learning styles
• What challenges the claim that learning styles improve performance?

  Lack of supporting evidence
• What is a problem with the large number of identified learning styles?

  Difficult to work out preferred style
• How many different types of learning styles did Coffield et al. identify?

  71