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Effects of learning-style teaching on elementary students' behaviors, achievement, and attitudes.

Academic Exchange Quarterly

| March 22, 2003 | Oberer, Joan J. | COPYRIGHT 2003 Rapid Intellect Group, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Abstract

An investigation of underachieving, chronically misbehaving, fourth-, fifth- and sixth-grade students in a suburban elementary school measured the impact of learning-style instructional strategies on classroom behaviors, attitudes toward learning, and achievement -test scores. Two mathematics instructional treatments were provided: traditional and learning-style congruent. Analyses of the data indicated that, despite the fact that these students consistently had been identified on the basis of their poor in-school behaviors during traditional lessons, their decorum was significantly better when they were involved in learning-style responsive lessons. In ...

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