Accommodating learning styles: Relevance and good practice in vocational education and training
Authors:
Peter Smith, Jennifer Dalton
Publication date: 
30 March 2005
Publication type:
Research report
Themes:
Teaching and learning > Learning > Learning processes and styles
Teaching and learning > Quality of teaching and learning > General
Teaching and learning > Teaching and learning delivery > General
VET system > VET providers > TAFEs
ISBN:
1 920896 39 2 print; 1 920896 40 6 web
This research was designed to identify how vocational education and training practitioners viewed learning style differences between students and how they took account of those differences in designing and delivering teaching. It involved surveys, focus groups and case studies in five TAFE institutes and one professional network of public and private trainers. The research found that teachers have developed a range of personal methods of identifying individual and group learning styles and a range of techniques to respond to them.