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EJ416435 EA524800
Title: What We Know about Learning Styles from Research in Special Education.Author(s): Snider, Vicki E.
Source: Educational Leadership, v48 n2 p53 Oct 1990
Publication Date: 1990
ISSN: 0013-1784
Language: English
Document Type: Journal articles (080); Reports--Evaluative (142)
Journal Announcement: CIJMAR1991
Learning styles
represent a type of aptitude-treatment interaction suggesting that
a person's distinctive characteristics (aptitudes) can be matched
to a specific treatment (instructional method) yielding a more effective
outcome than could otherwise have been achieved. Special education
research does not support categorizing youngsters or using holistic
methods with slow readers. Includes 18 references. (MLH)
Descriptors: *Aptitude Treatment Interaction; *Cognitive Style;
Elementary Secondary Education; *Evaluation Problems; Holistic Approach;
Individual Differences; *Learning Processes; *Research Problems;
Slow Learners; *Special Education
