Learning Styles

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This paper examines how most traditional classroom studies promote a verbal teaching methodology that is contradictory toward most student's natural inclination to be visual/auditory/kinesthetic learners. It looks at how an appropriate teaching methodology should take into consideration a student?s strengths and weaknesses of differing learning styles and should strive to balance these characteristics. It discusses how much attention has been focused on the theory of multiple intelligences and learning styles and explores the research of different theorists on the topic.

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"Linda Silverman and Richard Felder in one of many research studies related to multiple learning styles, focus on the learning behaviors of engineering students. In their paper entitled "Learning and Teaching Styles in Engineering Education" the theorists state that "mismatches exist between common learning styles of engineering students and traditional teaching styles of engineering professors" (Silverman & Felder, 1998). Silverman & Felder also define education as a two-step process that involves "the reception and processing of information" (Silverman & Felder, 670). For some learners, the reception and processing of information involves memorization, for others deductive reasoning, and still others reflection or action. Each of these responses is contingent on a particular individual's learning style."

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