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Learning style consistency across cognitive and motor settings

C A Coker1

  • 1Department of Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces 88003, USA. ccoker@nmsu.edu

Perceptual and Motor Skills
|December 1, 1995
PubMed
Summary

Athletes’ learning styles differ between classroom and sports settings. This suggests that learning style assessments need specific contexts to ensure accurate results for motor skill acquisition.

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Area of Science:

  • Sports Science
  • Educational Psychology
  • Motor Learning

Background:

  • Understanding athlete learning preferences is crucial for effective skill development.
  • Existing learning style inventories may not adequately capture the nuances of motor skill acquisition.
  • Cognitive and motor learning environments may elicit different learning style preferences.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if athletes exhibit different learning styles in academic versus sports contexts.
  • To assess the validity of standard learning style inventories when applied to motor skill learning.
  • To explore the need for context-specific assessment tools for motor skill acquisition.

Main Methods:

  • Administered the Learning Styles Inventory to 23 athletes.

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  • Participants completed the inventory twice: once for classroom learning and once for sports learning.
  • Analyzed the differences in reported learning styles between the two contexts.

    • Main Results:

    • Significant shifts in learning styles were observed between cognitive (classroom) and motor (sports) settings.
    • The study highlights potential limitations in applying general learning style inventories to specialized domains.
    • Athlete learning profiles appear to be context-dependent.

    Conclusions:

    • Learning style assessments require specific contextual focus (e.g., classroom vs. sport) for validity.
    • A dedicated instrument for assessing motor skill learning styles may be beneficial.
    • Tailoring assessment tools can improve the accurate profiling of learners for motor skill acquisition.