1. +
Learning Styles
INTC 5110
Fall 2010

2. +
What Style AreYou?
 http://www.ldpride.net/learning-style-test.html
 http://www.chaminade.org/inspire/learnstl.htm
 http://www.learning-styles-online.com/inventory/
 http://www.learningstyles.org/
 http://agelesslearner.com/assess/learningstyle.html

3. +Different Theories of Learning
Styles
 Myers-Briggs (http://www2.gsu.edu/~dschjb/wwwmbti.html
)
 Not really a learning styles theory, but a personality test
 Used heavily in business
 Not corroborated in studies that measure achievement

4. +Different Theories of Learning
Styles
 Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences
 verbal-linguistic
 musical-rhythmic
 logical-mathematical
 visual-spatial
 bodily-kinesthetic
 intrapersonal
 interpersonal

5. +Different Theories of Learning
Styles
 Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences
 Intelligence redefined as:
 a biopsychological potential to process information that can be
activated in a cultural setting to solve problems or create
products that are of value in a culture
 Gardner himself has always held that his is a theory about
intelligence, not a prescriptive theory for instruction or learning

6. +Different Theories of Learning
Styles
 Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences
 Intelligence redefined as:
 a biopsychological potential to process information that can be
activated in a cultural setting to solve problems or create
products that are of value in a culture
 Gardner himself has always held that his is a theory about
intelligence, not a prescriptive theory for instruction or learning.
Also, he states it is not a good idea to try to teach all things to all
intelligences.

7. +Different Theories of Learning
Styles
 Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences
 Zero research supporting claims of MI increasing student
achievement
 http://educationnext.org/reframing-the-mind/
 http://educationnext.org/files/ednext20043_18.pdf

8. +Different Theories of Learning
Styles
 Brain based Learning
 Caine and Caine suggested that the structure of the brain is
predictive of how people learn
 http://www.brainconnection.com/topics/?main=fa/brain-
based2
 Again, based loosely on neuroscience, but neuroscience
community does not support extrapolation of its research in this
manner

9. +Different Theories of Learning
Styles
 Locus of Control
 External or Internal
 http://wilderdom.com/psychology/loc/LocusOfControlWhatIs.
html
 Similar issues
 How is it measured?
 Is it stable?
 Does it predict?
 If we change instruction does it help?

10. +
Conclusion
 While learning styles have been touted as very important,
there is little evidence that they are
 More practice than research based
 Little or no evidence in favor of wholesale changes in how we
instruct
 So what do we do with this?