If you’ve ever sat through a teaching seminar, you’ve probably heard a lecture about “learning styles.” Perhaps you were told that some students are visual learners, some are auditory learners, and ...

A three-way collaboration project dubbed “machine teaching” works to find alternative teaching styles to help students learn effectively. But don’t let the name “machine teaching” fool you. This ...

Daniel D. Pratt presents five perspectives on teaching gathered from several years of research across five different countries. These perspectives are presented in both theoretical and practical forms ...

Fifty-five percent of students say a teaching style that didn’t work for them has impeded their success in a class since starting college. That makes it the No. 1 reported barrier to academic success ...

I don’t give pop quizzes. I have, of course, no compelling pedagogical reason for that decision. Like most professors, I didn’t receive any specific instruction on how to teach effectively, so I drew ...

Gary Schwartz, Don Merten and Robert J. Bursik, Jr. This paper examines three contrasting teaching styles in a middle-class junior high school. Previous conceptions of teaching styles have tended to ...