Students’ Learning Style Preferences and Teachers’ Instructional Strategies: Correlations Between Matched Styles and Academic Achievement
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Fall Winter 2012, Vol. 22, Number 1 Page 36 L style theories have been cited as an effective means for helping teachers recognize the incredibly diverse needs students bring into the classroom (Felder & Brent, 2005; Hall & Mosely, 2005; Sternberg, Grigorenko, & Zhang, 2008; Williamson & Watson, 2007). According to Zapalska and Dabb (2002), an understanding of the way students learn improves the selection of teaching strategies best suited to student learning. In addition, these theories provide a framework that enables teachers to knowledgably develop a variety of instructional
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