There was an article in the Chronicle of Higher Ed last month that after reading it, I decided to promptly ignore. But it has been resurrected in a few places and Stephen Downe’s referenced it recently as an argument against learning styles. The article is “Matching Teaching Styles to Learning Styles” by David Glenn. There are articles that are written just to generate letters to the editor and I think this was one of them. The article begins with “almost certainly, you were told that your instruction should match your students’ styles. ” (I have never heard anything of the kind. What I do hear is that we should strive to make our information multimodal.) And then introduces the argument from Pashler’s recent paper that “there is no strong scientific evidence to support the “matching” idea, they contend in a paper published this week in Psychological Science in the Public Interest. And there is absolutely no reason for professors to adopt it in the classroom.” The article then goes on to quote Sternberg who has conducted a lot of research in this field who says that “while he holds Mr. Pashler and his colleagues in high esteem, he believes they did a poor job here. Several of the most-cited researchers on learning styles, Mr. Sternberg points out, do not appear in the paper’s bibliography. “The authors draw negative conclusions about a field they fail adequately to review,” Mr. Sternberg says.” So in other words, the author of the article is giving us this “it may or may not be a valid position” kind of argument.
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