Dear Jinan,
Most of the recent research suggests that they are a myth. This article has
summaries of some of the recent studies:
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/the-myth-of-learning-styles/557687/
I am pasting some excerpts below:
"The thing is, they’re not. Or at least, a lot of evidence suggests that
people aren’t really one certain kind of learner or another. In a study
<https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ase.1777> published last
month in the journal *Anatomical Sciences Education*, Husmann and her
colleagues had hundreds of students take the vark questionnaire to
determine what kind of learner they supposedly were. The survey then gave
them some study strategies that seem like they would correlate with that
learning style. Husmann found that not only did students not study in ways
that seemed to reflect their learning style, those who did tailor their
studying to suit their style didn’t do any better on their tests."
---
"Another study published last year
<https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27620075>in the *British Journal of
Psychology* found that students who preferred learning visually thought
they would remember pictures better, and those who preferred learning
verbally thought they’d remember words better. But those preferences had no
correlation to which they actually remembered better later on—words or
pictures. Essentially, all the “learning style” meant, in this case, was
that the subjects *liked *words or pictures better, not that words or
pictures worked better for their memories.
In other words, “there’s evidence that people do try to treat tasks in
accordance with what they believe to be their learning style, but it
doesn’t help them,” says Daniel Willingham, a psychologist at the
University of Virginia. In 2015, he reviewed the literature on learning
styles and concluded that
<https://career.ucsf.edu/sites/career.ucsf.edu/files/Article%20UCSF%20SEJC%20January%202017.pdf>“learning
styles theories have not panned out.”
---
"That same year, a *Journal of Educational Psychology* paper
<http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/features/edu-a0037478.pdf> found no
relationship between the study subjects’ learning-style preference (visual
or auditory) and their performance on reading- or listening-comprehension
tests. Instead, the visual learners performed best on all kinds of tests.
Therefore, the authors concluded, teachers should stop trying to gear some
lessons toward “auditory learners.” “Educators may actually be doing a
disservice to auditory learners by continually accommodating their auditory
learning style,” they wrote
<http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/features/edu-a0037478.pdf>, “rather than
focusing on strengthening their visual word skills.”
In our conversation, Willingham brought up another study, published in 2009
<https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2697032/>, in which people
who said they liked to think visually or verbally really did try to think
that way: Self-proclaimed visualizers tried to create an image, and
self-proclaimed verbalizers tried to form words. But, there was a rub, he
said: “If you’re a visualizer and I give you pictures, you don’t remember
pictures any better than anyone who says they’re verbalizer.”
Sincerely,
ali
On 20 June 2018 at 05:28, Jinan K B <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Friends
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> can anyone tell me about learning styles? what do designers think
> about this? Does it really exist? If it exists when and where one can
> use this?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
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