Students are neither left nor right brained: how some early childhood educators get this ‘neuromyth’ and others wrong
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Why educators endorse a neuromyth: relationships among educational priorities, beliefs about learning styles, and instructional decisions
Introduction Neuromyths are widely held misinterpretations of cognitive or neuroscience research (Grospietsch and Lins, 2021). Unsurprisingly, many of the neuromyths that pertain to thinking and information processing have flowed into…
Is it really a neuromyth? A meta-analysis of the learning styles matching hypothesis
Introduction Learning styles have been the topic of ongoing debate in education. Teacher education textbooks often state matching instruction to students’ preferred style will optimize learning outcomes (i.e., the matching…
The persistence of matching teaching and learning styles: A review of the ubiquity of this neuromyth, predictors of its endorsement, and recommendations to end it
1. Introduction: Neuromyths and learning styles Have you ever heard the statement that we only use 10% of our brains? If so, you have been exposed to an example of…