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Learning Styles Lab

self-assess your preferences · honest about the myth

1. A new app explains itself best to you via…

2. Stuck on a task, you reach for…

3. You remember a talk best by…

4. Learning a new skill, you want…

5. Your notes tend to be…

6. Directions to a place — you prefer…

7. Explaining an idea, you…

8. A confusing doc — you wish it had…

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No Fibs — Honest Limitations

This measures your self-reported preferences, and those are real and useful to know. But the popular claim — that matching teaching to a learner's "style" improves learning — is not supported by controlled studies (Pashler, McDaniel, Rohrer & Bjork, 2008). People have preferences; the evidence says teaching to them doesn't measurably help. For what DOES work, see the Pedagogical Research Lab.