Evaluate

• Many teachers and lecturers at universities would disagree with Willingham’s views about there being little benefit in students trying to be like actual scientists or historians 


  they argue that it is very important for students to conduct experiments themselves as they start to learn the issues involved in conducting research (the difficulties in ensuring research is replicable and controlling for extraneous variable’s that can affect the outcome of research).
• Certain things might benefit from being drilled

  learning time’s tables by chanting them allows the students to access and recall their tables in this way. It will help them with their mental arithmetic at school and in the future. Whilst it might not suit every learner, many students would benefit from it.
• Both Dweck’s and Willingham’s theories favour the idea of nurture over nature as they are learning theories 


  Willingham states that if the method of teaching best fits the content, then learners will do well. However, by ignoring the influence of innate factors on children’s development, he may be discounting the fact that those children might need to be taught in a specific way to assist their learning, regardless of the content.
• Although Willingham’s theory favours nurture, he ignore the fact that some children are kinaesthetic learners because this is how they were taught at school when they were very young 


  therefore, having been conditioned to learn in that way, children may do better continuing to learn kinaesthetically as they grow older.