Learning Styles

Overview

Objectives/Goals My objective was to see if the similarities and differences in learning styles(Tactile Kinesthetic, Visual and/or Auditory) between students and their teachers affect the academic success of the students. Methods/Materials 6th,7th and 8th grade teachers and their students filled out my learning style questionnaire to determine their learning style and processing style (Spatially, Sequentially, Combination). I analyzed the questionnaires to determine whether the students who had the same learning style as their teachers, generally did better academically than students who had a different learning style than their teachers. Results My experiments found that similarities of learning styles between teachers and students did NOT seem to have a great effect on the student's academic success. However, the similarities of processing styles between teachers and students did seem to affect the student's academic success! Conclusions/Discussion The match of processing styles seems to matter more in a classroom than the match of learning styles between teachers and students.

Awards (1)

• Category Award

Competition history

• CSEF 2006 Behavioral Sciences · Entry J0308

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