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Teacher here. Unfortunately this myth is incredibly resistant to attempts to dispel it. It is still included in teacher training and professional development an

Teacher here. Unfortunately this myth is incredibly resistant to attempts to dispel it. It is still included in teacher training and professional development and many schools still require teachers to address it in their learning plans. I feel it's hard to address because, among other reasons, 1. Its useful for administrators. Parents and students want to feel that you are teaching them on an individual level. Learning styles is "legitimate" enough to point to for administrators. 2. It's something of a personal belief for many teachers.

StClaire 10y ago
Education bias suffers insane bias. I've never seen a study (though I'm sure there are some) where the researchers rejected the teaching techniques they advocated. Specific Example: I've been in flipped classrooms. They suck. Everyone hated it. The instructor justified it by showing studies "proving" how great flipped classrooms work conducted by people who advocate and teach in flipped classrooms
- nonbel 10y ago
  Education research was probably the first field to adopt NHST[1], so it is not surprising it is messed up. Psychology was next. The most recent (still in progress) is physics. Sometime in the middle it happened to biology/medicine. You can see the order is inversely correlated with the reliability of the modern results. [1] See eg Gigerenzer 2004 for an intro: http://library.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/ft/gg/GG_Mindless_2004.pdf http://library.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/ft/gg/GG_Mindless_2004.pdf
- barry-cotter 10y ago
  > I've been in flipped classrooms. They suck. Everyone hated it. The instructor justified it by showing studies "proving" how great flipped classrooms work conducted by people who advocate and teach in flipped classrooms That everyone agreed on disliking the flipped classroom format is at best very weak evidence against their effectiveness. Ebbinghaus' 1885 research [0] on how people learn and remember still doesn't inform the teaching of any subject goes in any national education system. If it did revision would be a great deal more integrated into teachers' practice. And we have a great guess at why. It feels less effective than moving on to the next topic and doing all your revision before the test. The same domination of what people think works, what feels like it's working over what actually works better is seen in the greater popularity and use of massed practice over distributed, which works better[1]. [0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgetting_curve https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgetting_curve [1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_practice https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_practice

StClaire 10y ago

Education bias suffers insane bias. I've never seen a study (though I'm sure there are some) where the researchers rejected the teaching techniques they advocated. Specific Example: I've been in flipped classrooms. They suck. Everyone hated it. The instructor justified it by showing studies "proving" how great flipped classrooms work conducted by people who advocate and teach in flipped classrooms

nonbel 10y ago
Education research was probably the first field to adopt NHST[1], so it is not surprising it is messed up. Psychology was next. The most recent (still in progress) is physics. Sometime in the middle it happened to biology/medicine. You can see the order is inversely correlated with the reliability of the modern results. [1] See eg Gigerenzer 2004 for an intro: http://library.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/ft/gg/GG_Mindless_2004.pdf http://library.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/ft/gg/GG_Mindless_2004.pdf
barry-cotter 10y ago
> I've been in flipped classrooms. They suck. Everyone hated it. The instructor justified it by showing studies "proving" how great flipped classrooms work conducted by people who advocate and teach in flipped classrooms That everyone agreed on disliking the flipped classroom format is at best very weak evidence against their effectiveness. Ebbinghaus' 1885 research [0] on how people learn and remember still doesn't inform the teaching of any subject goes in any national education system. If it did revision would be a great deal more integrated into teachers' practice. And we have a great guess at why. It feels less effective than moving on to the next topic and doing all your revision before the test. The same domination of what people think works, what feels like it's working over what actually works better is seen in the greater popularity and use of massed practice over distributed, which works better[1]. [0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgetting_curve https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgetting_curve [1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_practice https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_practice