Questions about the Learning Styles poster

What’s on the Learning Styles poster?

The claim against The evidence, side by side. The claim: Each learner has a preferred modality; The claim: Teaching to it raises attainment; The claim: Around 70 models are in circulation; The claim: Widely believed by teachers worldwide; The claim: VAK and VARK are the common forms; The evidence: Preferences are real; the benefit is not; The evidence: The meshing hypothesis has failed tests; The evidence: Pashler et al. 2008 found almost no valid studies; The evidence: Later trials continue to find no effect; The evidence: Time and money spent on it are wasted; People do have preferences. Matching teaching to them does not improve learning, and…. Educational reference. The useful residue: match the medium to the content, not to the pupil. Maps are visual because maps are visual.

Who is the Learning Styles poster for?

Learning Styles belongs to the Education section rather than to a school year, because humanities is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning learning theory can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.

When should you use the Learning Styles poster?

Cite this the next time a training day asks you to label pupils by style. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Learning Styles belongs on the wall where that humanities work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.

What other posters go with Learning Styles?

Behaviourism, Cognitive Load Theory and Constructivism sit alongside Learning Styles in the Education section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.BehaviourismCognitive Load TheoryConstructivism

Is the Learning Styles poster free to download and print?

Yes. Learning Styles downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Education section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence

What size does the Learning Styles poster print at?

Learning Styles is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Learning Styles loses nothing.Printing guide