Title:
A test of two alternative cognitive processing models: learning styles and dual coding.
Published in:
Theory and Research in Education, 2018, Vol. 16(1), pp. 40– 64.
Authors:
Joshua Cuevas and Bryan L. Dawson, University of North Georgia, USA
What did the research explore?
This research explored two cognitive models – learning styles and dual coding. It looked at what impact learning approaches that take these into account have on university students’ learning. The learning styles theory says that people have a preferred way of processing information and, if they are presented with information in that way, their learning is enhanced (Cuevas and Dawson, 2018). While there are many variations on the learning styles model, the authors chose Visual, Audio, Read-Write, and Kinaesthetic (VARK) for this study. The authors note, however, that there is an overwhelming lack of evidence to say that learning styles work (see Reiner and Willingham, 2010; Mayor, 2011; Rohrer
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Really interesting – thank you. I am going to do some further research on dual coding.