[Olpc-open] an interesting article on an article on learning styles...

[Sameer Verma]

Almost certainly, you were told that your instruction should match your
students' styles. For example, kinesthetic learners—students who learn best
through hands-on activities—are said to do better in classes that feature
plenty of experiments, while verbal learners are said to do worse.
Now four psychologists argue that you were told wrong. There is no strong
scientific evidence to support the "matching" idea, they contend in a paper
published this week<http://www.psychologicalscience.org/journals/index.cfm?journal=pspi&content=pspi/9_3>in
*Psychological Science in the Public Interest. *And there is absolutely no
reason for professors to adopt it in the classroom.

http://chronicle.com/article/Matching-Teaching-Style-to/49497/

cheers,
Sameer
-- 
Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Information Systems
Director, Center for Business Solutions
San Francisco State University
http://verma.sfsu.edu/
http://cbs.sfsu.edu/
http://is.sfsu.edu/
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