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While studying engineering I explicitly remember my classmates being weaker and stronger at different topics, and our study group would teach the thing they wer
by kingkongjaffa 3y ago
While studying engineering I explicitly remember my classmates being weaker and stronger at different topics, and our study group would teach the thing they were strong at.
I had a really intuitive grasp of mechanics and dynamics and free body diagrams, others were much better than me at electrical engineering concepts, others again strong in fluid dynamics etc.
There’s definitely some variation in the things people are naturally able to grasp based on their past.
So initial exposure to a new topic for the same group of people, naturally some will take to it more easily than others.
I wouldn’t say it was a cut and dry as “learning styles” but some combination of the material and the way it is presented by the professor makes it digestible to varying degrees by students.
- dhimes 3y agoI don't believe the learning style antagonists would disagree with this. They argue that variations do exist, but they are due to prior knowledge background, talent and IQ (or g or whatever). I certainly see some truth in their argument. If you and I were each to read a text of something that, say, you are familiar with and I am not, then you would probably score higher in the "verbal" learning category and I would have to draw pictures to understand the text. But a big part of the difference is that I would have to learn a lot more than you in order to parse the text- you have a better background. This is easily seen in reading research papers for example, with a novice vs an expert. My argument is that we simply haven't studied it enough to know if there are fundamental differences in the way people learn.