Stop propagating the learning styles myth

By Paul A. Kirschner. Comput. Educ., 2017

398 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/b97137476abfde686a2a44b5574323b200d455a4

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. Matthew L. Bernacki

In Developmental and Educational Psychology

1. Judithe Sheard
2. Michail N. Giannakos
3. Matthew L. Bernacki

In Education

1. Judithe Sheard
2. Brett A. Becker
3. Michail N. Giannakos
4. Meghan J. Greene
5. Nikki G. Lobczowski
6. Matthew L. Bernacki
7. Simon

Citations in the corpus

• Introductory programming: a systematic literature review (2018, background): “coded as theory-related papers, and the majority of these papers deal with the notion of learning styles [404, 726, 735], which have been largely discredited as “pseudoscience, myths, and outright lies” [332].”
• A Systematic Review of Research on Personalized Learning: Personalized by Whom, to What, How, and for What Purpose(s)? (2021, background): “They argued against their inclusion and revoiced that the existence of “ learning styles ” or any such implications for learning have been largely debunked through empirical testing (Kirschner, 2017; Pashler et al., 2008; Willingham et al., 2015).”