Stories, broadly defined, facilitate all types of learning: abstract content, how we predict the actions of others, and even how we encode the events of our own lives.

As popular as learning-style teaching theories may be, a group of cognitive psychologists say, there's no evidence to support their widespread use.

In education, as in psychology, clarity matters. Yet in everyday conversations about teaching and learning, terms like learning theory and pedagogy are often used interchangeably. Phrases such as ...

For example, hands-on laboratory experiments or experiential activities help people with this dominant learning style engage with information. While the VARK learning styles differentiate into four ...

Drawing on the foundational theories of John Dewey and Kurt Lewin, we examine recent developments in theory and research on experiential learning and explore how this work can enhance experiential ...

Today we know the learning styles theory has little scientific basis. Worse still, the belief in learning types may actually do harm to children. In 2023, one study found that assumptions about ...

Cognitive load theory has been traditionally described as involving three separate and additive types of load. Germane load is considered as a learning-relevant load complementing extraneous and ...

A new study offers further evidence against the "learning styles" theory—the idea that students can process information best when teachers tailor instruction to students' strengths.

Training involving repeated long inter-trial intervals — spaced training — leads to more robust memory formation for many types of learning than does training involving short or no intervals ...