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Articles About Learning Styles

Listed below are main authors writing about learning styles, organized according to Curry's "onion" categories -- where each level is based on 'deeper' human traits (see Models of Learning Styles).

General Article

• Using Learning Styles to Adapt Technology in Higher Education

Instructional Preferences

• Canfield
• Canfield, A. Learning Styles Inventory Manual. Ann Arbor, MI: Humanics Media. 1980.
• Dunn and Dunn
• Rita Dunn, "Learning Styles: State of the Science," Theory into Practice v.23, n.1 (1984), 10-19.
• Friedman and Stritter
• Goldberg
• Hill and Nunnery
• Renzulli and Smith
• Rezler and Rezmovic

Social Interaction Models

• Grasha and Reichmann
• Anthony Grasha, "Learning Styles: The Journey from Greenwich Observatory to the College Classroom" Improving College and University Teaching v. 22 (Winter, 1984) 46-53.
• Anthony Grasha, Teaching with Style Pittsburgh, PA: Alliance Publishers, 1996.
• Mann
• Arnold R. Mann, S.M., Binder, J., Cytrunbaum, S., Newman, B.M., Ringwald, J., & Rosenwein, R. The College Classroom Conflict, Change, and Learning. New York, Wiley: 1970.
• Perry
• William Perry, Forms of Intellectual and Ethical Development in The College Years. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970
• Robert Kloss, " A Nudge Is Best: Helping Students through the Perry Scheme of Intellectual Development" College Teaching v.42, n.4 pp. 151-158.
• Belenky
  • Mary Belenky, B. M. Clinchy, N. R. Goldberger, and J.M. Tarule. Women's Ways of Knowing New York: Basic Books. 1986.
  • Learning Differences and Teaching Styles
• Baxter Magolda
• Marcia Baxter Magolda, Knowing and Reasoning in College: Gender Related Patterns in Students' Intellectual Development San Francisco: Jossey Bass, 1992.

Information Processing

• Biggs
• Entwhistle and Ramsden
• Felder's Learning Style Page
• Gardner's Seven Learning Styles
• Howard Gardner, Frames of Mind New York: Harper and Row, 1985.
• Howard Gardner, Multiple Intelligences: The Theory in Practice New York: Basic Books, 1993.
• Seven Styles of Learning
• Seven Styles, continued
• Gregoric Mind Styles
• Gregoric, A. An Adult's Guide to Style Maynard, MA: Gabriel Systems, Inc., 1986.
• Hunt
• Kolb's Model of Experiential Learning
• Kolb, D. Experiential Learning: Experience as the Source of Learning and Development Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1984.
• Learning and the University Classroom
• Learning Styles
• Teaching and Learning Style Preferences
• Pask
• Pask, G. Styles and Strategies of Learning. British Journal of Education Psychology, 1976: 46, 128-148
• Reinert, Edmonds Learning Style Identification Exercise
• Schmeck, Ribich, & Ramanaih
  • Schmeck, R. Learning Styles of College Students. In R. F. Dillion &R. R. Schmeck (eds.), Individuals Differences in Cognition San Diego, CA: Academic Press. 1983. pp 223-279
• Schroeder
  • Schroeder, C. C. New Students-New Learning Styles. Change,: 1993, pp. 21-26

Personality Levels

• Kagan
• Katz and Henry
• Myers-Briggs
• Gordon Lawrence, People Types and Tiger Stripes 3rd edition 1993
• Learning Differences and Teaching Styles
• Keirsey's Temperaments and Characteristics
• Witkin
• Witkin, H.A. et al. "Field-dependent and
  Field-independent Styles with Right/Left Mode techniques" Review of Educational Research v. 47 (1977) 1-64.

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