Teaching and learning
Accommodating learning styles: Relevance and good practice in vocational education and training
- Item:
- 1554
- Title:
- Accommodating learning styles: Relevance and good practice in vocational education and training
- Authors:
- Peter Smith, Jennifer Dalton
- Publication date:
- 30 March 2005
- 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.
