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Also, when reporting results, many studies will rely on “student satisfaction” as a measure of success, or rely on students’ reflections as a measure of success in a class. For example, many measures of learning styles will ask students how they believe they learn best. Unfortunately, satisfaction with a class or a student’s recollections of success are subjective measures, and generally not accurate (Kirschner & van Merriënboer, 2013, Kirschner, 2017). While understanding a learner’s preference is useful as is understanding student satisfaction with a lesson, it does not have the same weight as necessitating teaching to that preference.
This paragraph stood out to me because, it lets you know with facts that the way we measure success is based on student satisfaction is a bit crazy to me because every student is going to feel a different way about a class depending on a lot of things, starting with grades and if they even went to class a lot. I feel as though that is just not a good system.
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Roundup on Research: The myth of “learning styles”
This article is about different types of learning styles that people claim are best to help them learn such as visual or auditory etc. In this article, Evan Ogg Straub debunks the myths through research of his own that these different types of learning styles do not directly affect the outcome of an individual learner's comprehension. This article talks more about teaching strategies effective for all learners equally. Such as the example of Bloom's Taxonomy which is an effective method for all learners.
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