Breaking from Tradition: Using Learning Styles to Teach Students How to Learn.

Foriska, Terry J.

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ERIC Number: EJ449898

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Publication Date: 1992

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Breaking from Tradition: Using Learning Styles to Teach Students How to Learn.

Foriska, Terry J.

Schools in the Middle, v2 n1 p14-16 Fall 1992

At a middle school in suburban Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, administrators and teachers used the cognitive domain of the National Association of Secondary School Principals' Learning Style Profile to design "products" that helped compensate for underachieving sixth and seventh graders' skill deficits in mathematics and science. Success meant breaking with old paradigms. (MLH)

Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Style, Grade 6, Grade 7, Intermediate Grades, Intervention, Mathematics Instruction, Middle Schools, Problem Solving, Science Instruction, Sequential Learning, Student Evaluation, Underachievement

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh)

Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Learning Style Profile (NASSP)

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