Learning Styles: Dunn and Dunn Model
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The Dunn and Dunn Learning Style Model anticipates an observable improvement in student learning and behaviour when a match has been achieved between instructional environments and File:Learning styles. It has been developed for use across all learning levels aimed at improving the effectiveness of instruction, in particular for learners not demonstrating appropriate progress.
The model emerged out of 30 years of work that included a review of over 80 years of research on how children learn differently, by Professors Rita and Kenneth Dunn in the 1970s - an outcome initiated by the New York State Department of Education. In the classroom both observed distinct differences in the way learners responded to their instructional materials; some liked to learn alone and others with a teacher, resulting in the hypothesis that learning achievements were heavily influenced by relatively fixed characteristics, and that elements environmental, emotional, sociological, and physical contributed to the learning environment, and approaches individuals took when learning. Motivated to raising awareness that students learn in different ways, both Rita and Kenneth Dunn believed instructors needed to provide multiple strategies to address all the learning styles of their students and maximise teaching materials for more efficient learning. Refinement with the Dunn Learning Style model has been an on-going process based on extensive field work and studious research; further elements have been added of a cognitive nature and hemispheric preference. Subsequently, researchers at more than 130 institutions of Higher Education have participated in international research on the Dunn and Dunn Model and published more than 830 studies.
Diagnosing Individual Learning Styles
Development of the Learning Style Model
Different Learning Styles
Impact of Learning Styles
Validation of Learning-Styles-Based Instruction
The criteria for an experiment would require:
Strategy for Implementation
Distance Learning and Learning Styles
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Find below additional information and resources. |
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Rita Dunn answers questions on Learning Styles | Learning Styles in Education Leadership. | |
Learning Styles | A simple online survey designed to help you identify your preferred learning style by the Open University and BBC programming. | |
Impact of Learning Styles | The Influence of Learning Styles on Learners in E-Learning Environments - An Empirical Study. | |
Enhancing student achievement | Learning styles and formative assessment strategy: enhancing student achievement in Web-based learning. |
References
- ↑ Jung, C.G. (1964) Psychological types :Or, the psychology of individuation, (H. Godwin Baynes, Trans.), New York: Pantheon Books.
- ↑ "learning styles" A Dictionary of Education. Ed. Susan Wallace. Oxford University Press, 2009. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG). 30 May 2012 http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/ENTRY.html?subview=Main&entry=t267.e549.
- ↑ Wells, J.G., Layne, B. H. & Allen, D. ‘Management Development Training & Learning Styles’, Public Productivity & Management Review , Vol. 14, No. 4 (Summer, 1991, 415-428), Sharpe:. Published by: M.E. Sharpe, Inc.
- ↑ Fadokun, J.B. & Ojedele, P.K. ‘ Exploration of the Learning Styles of Educational Executives: Implication for Management Education, delivered at the International Conference on Learning (2008,3-6 June) The University of Illinois at Chicago, USA.
- ↑ Determining whether these practices were supported by scientific evidence, underpinned the research project undertaken by a team of renowned professors of psychology in the USA in 2008. Their findings should be considered before implementing prescriptive learning style models for educational training. Pashler, H. McDaniel, M. Rohrer, D. Bjork, R ( Dec. 2008) ‘Learning Styles: Concepts and Evidence in Psychological Science in the Public Interest vol.9 no. 3, 103-119.
- ↑ Authors Pashler, McDaniel, Bjork (2008) claim that despite the enormous amount of literature on learning-styles, very few studies had even used an experimental methodology capable of testing the validity of learning-styles applied to education. They also claimed it would be an error to conclude that all possible versions of learning styles have been tested and found wanting; many had not been tested at all.
- ↑ Simonson, M. Smaldino, S. Albright, M. Zvacek, S. (2009, 4th ed.)Teaching and Learning at a Distance, Pearson Education, Inc.: USA.