Yesterday I read an article in the Shawnee State online news site University Chronicle about a research program being conducted by Professor Loretta Harvey at Ohio State University to study learning habits of students to see if their if a certain learning style has an effect on student performance in class. My first thought was YES or course it does!
Harvey said she hopes that this research project will make students and professors more aware of learning styles. She believes that every student has a learning style (auditory, visual, tactile, and kinesthetic) which best suits him or her, and Harvey says that most of these styles of learning are not being accommodated by lectures.
Again, YES!
In all due respect to Professor Harvey, do we really need a research study to tell us students learn better through interactive teaching rather than lectures. Professors were doing lectures in my day (suffice to say a long time ago). With all the technological advances I would think professors would have changed their teaching styles to meet the student’s style quite a while ago.
Harvey said her research into learning styles began as a project in a quantitative data class at OSU. She says the goal of her research is to "look at students' attitudes towards science, cooperative learning and critical thinking in a science course, and identify their learning style to see if there is a relationship between their attitudes and their learning styles.
Perhaps a professional research study is just what the teacher ordered. Let’s hope professors enter the 21 century and realize “talking heads” are not the way to teach science or any other course for that matter.
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