Oakley: Research Shows Visual and Auditory Learning Styles Are Scientifically Groundless
Barbara Oakley · #31 Barbara Oakley: Learning How to Learn · Apr 10, 2018 · at 1:12:46
Oakley, an engineering professor and author on learning science, answers Shane Parrish's question about whether distinct learning styles like auditory, visual, or kinesthetic actually exist.
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“There was a excellent study done by a woman named Beth Rogoski and what she did was she took one of the standard tests to kind of analyze a very widely used test that is used to distinguish an individual as to whether they're a visual learner or an auditory learner or kinesthetic learner or whatever. So she had people take this test, and so then she got categories, right? So she's got her visual learners and her auditory learners and so forth, and so she then took the visual learners and had them take a test that was through hearing, and then she had the auditory learners, and she had them take a test that was visual, and what she found ultimately was people are fooling themselves completely. Those who thought that they were more visually oriented, they just fine with auditory. And likewise, those who thought that they were, they only learned best through auditory, they learned the same as the visual learners in, in looking at some sort of visual thing.”
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