Rachel C. Syrja, a teacher on special assignment for the office of instruction in the El Monte City, Calif., school district, has designed districtwide staff development in assessment for learning, ...

If you are in a mischievous mood and want to get a rise out of your favorite teachers or principals, send them a copy of "Learning Styles: Concepts and Evidence," in Psychological Science in the ...

Teaching to different learning styles, such as visual or auditory, has become widely popular in education. As educators struggle to define effective 21st-century instruction, one practice that many ...

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Individuals take in and process information in a variety of ways, according to Terrence Maltbia, associate professor of organization and leadership at Columbia University. When it comes to employee ...

As an educator, I often come across the concept of "learning styles." Briefly, this refers to the idea that different people learn in different ways. Concerned students will often remark that they ...

A few years ago, when I was on my university’s Graduate Council, a new course proposal came to us from our College of Education. The proposal referred to the different learning styles of students, ...

Upon reviewing major learning-style studies, the researchers say they found “virtually no evidence” that teaching to learning styles helps students learn, simply because few studies have used an ...