Out with Learning Styles, In with Dual Coding

by Faye Jones

In their book, Five Teaching and Learning Myths Debunked: A Guide for Teachers, Adam Brown and Althea Need Kaminske look at the pervasive myth of learning styles:

1. Every person has their own learning style.
2. Teaching to a student’s learning style makes a difference in how well the student learns.

What does the research say?

1. People tend to learn in fundamentally the same way.
2. Study after study has shown that teaching to learning styles makes no difference in learning.

What should we be doing?

1. Pairing visual with text (dual coding) correlates with student learning. Why? Because this method provides more cues to help memory.

More information:

https://www.structural-learning.com/post/dual-coding-a-teachers-guide