Learning Styles

 

What are Learning Styles?

The term learning styles is  used to describe how learners gather, sift through, interpret, organize, come to conclusions about, and “store” information for further use.  

VARK is a popular learning styles inventory.  These styles included are sensory approaches:  visual, aural, verbal [reading/writing], and kinesthetic.  

Felder and Silverman’s Index of Learning Styles, is based on how learners process and organize information:  active-reflective, sensing-intuitive, verbal-visual, and sequential-global.

There are well over 70 different learning styles schemes (Coffield, 2004).

While there is no evidence linking learning style to instruction type, there is the idea that certain disciplines need to employ certain learning styles (VARK) to provide effective learning.

https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/learning-styles-preferences/