We've heard ad nauseam that there are no learning styles, or at the very least, that tailoring instruction according to learning styles produces no significant difference in learning outcome. But what about the case where student learning is self-regulated? "This paper examines the different learning styles and self-regulated learning strategies used by students in a core computer science course." According to the authors, "aspects of students‘ preferred learning styles had a significant impact on academic performance in the midterm examination." But also, "metacognitive strategies were the least popular strategies among students," which suggests that intervention focusing on these strategies may have a beneficial result. Maybe Will Thalheimer won't award these authors the thousand dollars, but surely it's sufficient to push the l;earn styles critics off their instructivist perch?
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