Institutionalized Misinformation in US Education: Combatting the Overselling of Learning Styles and Underselling of Spaced Effort.
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| Title: | Institutionalized Misinformation in US Education: Combatting the Overselling of Learning Styles and Underselling of Spaced Effort. |
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| Authors: | Cleary, Anne M. (AUTHOR), Robinson, Daniel H. (AUTHOR) |
| Source: | Journal of Social Issues. Mar2025, Vol. 81 Issue 1, p1-16. 16p. |
| Subjects: | Education, Misinformation, Cognitive styles, Learning |
| Geographic Terms: | United States |
| Abstract: | Similar to medicine and climate science, education suffers from the spread of misinformation in the United States. Learning styles are an approach that, despite being shown to be ineffective at benefiting learning, is oversold in education, continuing to be extensively implemented, institutionalized, and widely believed to benefit learning. At the same time, over a century of rigorous experimental evidence indicates the effectiveness of spaced learning efforts for enhancing memory retention, skill acquisition, and coming to new understandings in the learning process, yet spacing is undersold in US education. We suggest that research on misinformation spread, pseudoscience, and science denial in domains like vaccines and climate change is relevant to misinformation spread regarding learning styles. We further suggest that the misinformation literature could inform the development of methods for decreasing the spread of misinformation concerning learning styles while increasing the spread of accurate information about spacing's benefits. These efforts could help to accelerate the rate at which the integration of new developments across disciplines can pave the way for a better integration of rigorous experimental science and policy and practice in US education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Database: | Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection |
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