小心这个神话:学习风格会影响父母,孩子和老师对孩子学术潜力的看法
Xin Sun1, Owen Norton2, Shaylene E Nancekivell3,4
1University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
NPJ science of learning
|October 17, 2023
概括
关于学习风格的信念影响了对学术潜力的看法. 视觉学习者通常被认为比实践学习者更聪明,这影响了能力的判断方式.
科学领域:
- 心理学 心理学 心理学
- 教育心理学教育心理学
- 社会心理学 社会心理学
背景情况:
- 学习风格的概念表明,个人通过特定的模式 (例如,视觉,动手) 学习最好.
- 这个概念得到了广泛的普及,但缺乏强大的经验支持,通常被称为神话.
- 社会信仰可以塑造对儿童学术能力的期望.
研究的目的:
- 调查关于学生学习风格 (视觉与实践) 的信息如何影响他们对学术潜力的看法.
- 检查这些认知是否在父母,儿童和教师之间存在差异.
- 为了确定学习风格的信念是否会影响对学生在核心与非核心学术科目中的能力的判断.
主要方法:
- 美国参与者进行了三项实验,主要是白人和中产阶级.
- 实验1涉及家长和孩子 (6-12岁) 根据学习风格来判断学生的智力.
- 实验2和3使用了更大的家长和教师样本来评估智力和学科特定技能的判断.
主要成果:
- 在实验中,参与者始终认为视觉学习者比实践学习者更聪明.
- 在实验3中,预计视觉学习者在核心科目 (数学,语言,社会科学) 中会表现出色,而实践学习者则在非核心科目 (健身房,音乐,艺术) 中受到青.
- 这些发现表明,在学术潜力评估中,有偏见有利于视觉学习风格.
结论:
- 学习风格信息,尽管是一个神话,但显著影响个人如何感知儿童的智力能力.
- 这种偏见可能会导致基于学生所谓的学习风格的不同期望.
- 需要进一步的研究来解决这些教学神话对教育实践和学生成果的影响.
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