Pseudolectual

world-shaker:

I’d say this is a pretty significant development:

An entire industry has sprouted based on learning styles. There are workshops for teachers, products targeted at different learning styles and some schools that even evaluate students based on this theory.

This prompted Doug Rohrer, a psychologist at the University of South Florida, to look more closely at the learning style theory.

When he reviewed studies of learning styles, he found no scientific evidence backing up the idea. “We have not found evidence from a randomized control trial supporting any of these,” he says, “and until such evidence exists, we don’t recommend that they be used.”

Dang. They taught me this concept at such a young age (I remember the session in 1st grade) that it was really part of my world-view. ANOTHER SACRED COW SLAUGHTERED.

(via asprettyasasong)