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LEARNING STYLES Felder http://www4. ncsu. edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/Learning_Styles. html LEARNING STYLES Students preferentially take in and process information in different ways: by seeing and hearing, reflecting and acting, reasoning... More

LEARNING STYLES Felder
http://www4.
ncsu.
edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/Learning_Styles.
html
LEARNING STYLES
Students preferentially take in and process information in different ways: by seeing and hearing, reflecting
and acting, reasoning logically and intuitively, analyzing and visualizing, steadily and in fits and starts.

Teaching methods also vary.
Some instructors lecture, others demonstrate or lead students to self-discovery;
some focus on principles and others on applications; some emphasize memory and others understanding.

When mismatches exist between learning styles of most students in a class and the teaching style of the
professor, the students may become bored and inattentive in class, do poorly on tests, get discouraged about
the courses, the curriculum, and themselves, and in some cases change to other curricula or drop out of
school.
Professors, confronted by low test grades, unresponsive or hostile classes, poor attendance and
dropouts, Less