Mistakes

Question 1

What does willingham say about abilities and learning styles?

Answer 1

• diffrent people have diffrent abilities
• someone might be better at processing visual info than auditory information
• that doesn’t mean they would learn better visually than auditory
• that is what confuses people

Question 2

There was a vast amount of reasearch about effectiveness of learning styles. Why was it not valid?

Answer 2

Mos didnt follow experimental procedures so validity couldn’t be tested

Question 3

Whats an example of the studies not following experimental procedures?

Answer 3

• after determining their preferred learning styles pps should have been RANDOMLY assigned to groups
• to receive diffrenet ways of learning the SAME info
• most studies didn’t do this

Question 4

What were the results about the studies who did use appropriator reasearch methods?

Answer 4

Failed to find evidence that learning styles improved performance

Question 5

Why does willingham believe learning styles still exist?

Answer 5

• because people couldn’t distinguish between ability and learning style
• confirmation bias

Question 6

What did willingham say about students personal interests?

Answer 6

• teachers should avoid teaching to personal interest
• if it distracts understanding actual concept of lesson
• but to give reading and context for facts

Question 7

What did willingham say about students doing science experiments?

Answer 7

• believes that theres no benefits
• since they cant think like scientists

Question 8

What did willingham believe about practise?

Answer 8

• it’s necessary
• should be meaningful and constricted
• it should be aimed to develop automaticity
• such as learning times tables to free working memory for problem solving

Question 9

What is supportingevidence for Williams et al?

Answer 9

• pashler et al found no evidence
• rosenshine et al found understanding is stragthedd by connecting new info to what we already know

Question 10

Criticism for willingham?

Answer 10

• teachers and unis this conducting experiments helps students experience challenges such as controlling EVs and supports deeper understanding of scientific process
• benefit of leraning timestables by rote
• ignores nature. Brain development, working memory capacity and attention span may affect learning. Some children may be need to be taught in specific ways to support their natural learning differences.