This document discusses how law school teaching methods have changed little since The Paper Chase, despite schools claiming otherwise. It notes law students today learn differently than in the past due to changes in K-12 education and greater student diversity. The document argues understanding student learning styles can help professors achieve their goals, and provides an overview of key points that will be discussed in more detail, including how personal characteristics influence learning styles and applying styles to the learning cycle.
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AN0119616678;acd01nov.16;2016Nov23.12:00;v2.2.500 Faculty members sometimes unknowingly or inadvertently contribute to a racist climate in their classrooms. But they can take steps to address racism more effectively in their teaching
Last year, at dozens of colleges and universities across the United States, students protested institutional unresponsiveness to pervasive issues of racial inequity. Most media attention disproportionately focused on the popularity of the protests as opposed to the actual issues underlying campus unrest. For example, instead of deeply exploring the experiences that ignited demonstrations among students at the University of Missouri, journalists wrote mostly about the football team's threat to cancel its game against Brigham Young University, the potential financial implications of the team's activism, and the eventual resignations of the system president and the chancellor of the university's flagship campus. Similarly, news coverage of protests at Yale University concentrated less on students' frustrations with the university's climate of racial exclusion and more on e-mails about potentially offensive Halloween costumes and perceived threats to free speech.
It is important for faculty members to understand that students were protesting racism. It is also essential that professors recognize how they, often unknowingly and inadvertently, say and do racist things to students of color in the classroom. Student uprisings were as much a response to negative experiences with their peers and administrators as they were expressions of frustration with the cultural incompetence of their teachers. Students of color did not suddenly start experiencing racist stereotyping and racially derogatory comments, disregard for the thoughtful integration of their cultural histories in the curriculum, and threats to their sense of belonging in college classrooms during the 2015-16 academic year. We know from our work as scholars at the University of Pennsylvania's Center for the Study of Race and Equity in Education that these problems are long-standing.
College presidents, provosts, deans, and other institutional leaders hire researchers from the Center for the Study of Race and Equity in Education to spend three to four days on their campuses doing racial climate assessments. At some places we are asked to focus on racial and ethnic differences among faculty and staff members in their feelings of inclusion, respectability, and opportunities for fair and equitable professional advancement, as well as on racial tensions in workplace settings. But on most campuses, administrators ask us to assess the racial climate for students -- feelings of inclusion and belonging across racial and ethnic groups, the extent to which students interact substantively across difference, where and what students learn about race, appraisals of institutional commitments to fostering inclusive environments, and characterizations of the supportiveness of cla.
This document provides biographical and professional information about Theodore S. Ransaw Ph.D. It includes his contact information, education background including a Ph.D. from the University of Nevada Las Vegas and dissertation topic. It lists his current position as an Equity Specialist at Michigan State University and previous positions including as a Research Specialist and Education Specialist. It outlines his university teaching experience and classroom experience outside of the university. It also lists refereed journal publications and academic book publications.
Gloria Ladson-Billings But Thats Just Good Teaching! Th.docxwhittemorelucilla
Gloria Ladson-Billings
But That's Just Good Teaching! The Case
for Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
FOR THE PAST 6 YEARS I have been engaged in
research with excellent teachers of African American
students (see, for example, Ladson-Billings, 1990,
1992b, 1992c, 1994). Given the dismal academic
performance of many African American students (The
College Board, 1985), I am not surprised that various
administrators, teachers, and teacher educators have
asked me to share and discuss my findings so that
they might incorporate them in their work. One usual
response to what I share is the comment around which
I have based this article, "But, that's just good
teaching!" Instead of some "magic bullet" or intricate
formula and steps for instruction, some members of
my audience are shocked to hear what seems to them
like some rather routine teaching strategies that are a
part of good teaching. My response is to affirm that,
indeed, I am describing good teaching, and to
question why so little of it seems to be occurring in
the classrooms populated by African American
students.
The pedagogical excellence I have studied is
good teaching, but it is much more than that. This
article is an attempt to describe a pedagogy I have
come to identify as "culturally relevant" (Ladson-
Billings, 1992a) and to argue for its centrality in the
academic success of African American and other
children who have not been well served by our
nation's public schools. First, I provide some
background information about
Gloria Ladson-Billings is associate professor of education at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison.
THEORY lNTO PRACTICE, Volume 34, Number 3, Summer 1995
Copyright 1995 College of Education, The Ohio State University
0040-5841/95$1.25
other attempts to look at linkages between school
and culture. Next, I discuss the theoretical grounding
of culturally relevant teaching in the context of a 3-
year study of successful teachers of African
American students. I conclude this discussion with
further examples of this pedagogy in action.
Linking Schooling and Culture
Native American educator Cornel Pewewardy
(1993) asserts that one of the reasons Indian children
experience difficulty in schools is that educators
traditionally have attempted to insert culture into the
education, instead of inserting education into the
culture. This notion is, in all probability, true for
many students who are not a part of the White,
middle-class mainstream. For almost 15 years,
anthropologists have looked at ways to develop a
closer fit between students' home culture and the
school. This work has had a variety of labels
including "culturally appropriate" (Au & Jordan,
1981), "culturally congruent" (Mohatt & Erickson,
1981), "culturally responsive" (Cazden & Leggett,
1981; Erickson & Mohatt, 1982), and "culturally
compatible" (Jordan, 1985; Vogt, Jordan, ...
This document discusses the challenges facing gifted and talented African American students. It begins by providing context for the author's interest in this issue through his personal background. It then discusses several key challenges:
1) Underrepresentation of minority students in gifted programs. Many gifted African American students attend underperforming urban schools without gifted programs.
2) Underachievement among gifted African American students due to sociopsychological, family, and school factors like low self-esteem and less supportive environments.
3) Cultural threats from the pressure to assimilate to white culture which can lead students to feel devalued or stigmatized due to negative stereotypes. This "stereotype threat" is said to contribute
Teaching Literature across Cultures English Literature at Iranian Universitiesshafieyan
1. Teaching literature across cultures can be controversial as literature deals with cultural topics like religion, gender, class, and race that differ across societies.
2. When teaching English literature at Iranian universities, issues like gender and religion are especially significant, while racial and ethnic issues are less prominent.
3. Theories from various scholars on teaching literature across cultures are analyzed and applied to the Iranian cultural context to determine their relevance and any necessary adaptations. The findings suggest that with awareness of cultural differences and proper application, a teacher can successfully teach literature that reconciles different or opposing cultures.
ARTICLEStudents’ Right to Their Own Language”A Counter.docxfredharris32
ARTICLE
“Students’ Right to Their Own Language”:
A Counter-Argument
Jeff Zorn
Published online: 6 July 2010
# Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010
Dedication
I learned to teach English at a Historically Black College in Alabama
under the guidance of no-nonsense African American women. Studying
“Students’ Right to Their Own Language,” a resolution affirming the
legitimacy of dialect from the National Council of Teachers of English
(NCTE), when it first appeared in the early 1970s, my mentors saw
beneficent intent but blatant shortcoming. Betty Gates, my most inspirational
colleague, said, and I am quoting exactly, “With friends like these, black
children hardly need enemies.”
“Students’ Right to Their Own Language” remains the official position
statement of the guild of college compositionists on dialect difference,
lionized to this day as a first principle of “liberatory” English teaching. My
mentors would be sorely disappointed to learn this. It is in respectful memory
of these excellent English teachers—Betty Gates and Emma Cleveland in
particular—that I offer my counter-argument.
“Students’ Right to Their Own Language”: The Beginnings
The sound, kind impulse behind “Students’ Right to Their Own
Language” (SRTOL) was to support the aspirations of poor, nonwhite, and
Acad. Quest. (2010) 23:311–326
DOI 10.1007/s12129-010-9175-x
Jeff Zorn is professor of English at Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA 95053; [email protected]
culturally marginalized students. The document itself, however, offered
underachievement and provincialism to the students it purported to serve.
Even its advocates concede that SRTOL reads as committee prose with the
different hands not smoothly blended, but no one has said firmly enough, or
demonstrated patiently enough, how little sense SRTOL makes.1
In 1973 the Conference on College Composition and Communication of
the National Council of Teachers of English approved the SRTOL resolution.
A special edition of College Composition and Communication then printed
that resolution for general distribution, prefaced it with a rationale, and
appended fifteen sections of commentary. Even a cursory glance at the
resolution itself makes plain why a full booklet was needed to begin
explaining it to fellow professionals:
We affirm the students’ right to their own patterns and varieties of
language—the dialects of their nurture or whatever dialects in which
they find their own identity and style. Language scholars long ago
denied that the myth of a standard American dialect had any validity.
The claim that any one dialect is unacceptable amounts to an attempt
of one social group to exert its dominance over another. Such a claim
leads to false advice for speakers and writers, and immoral advice for
humans. A nation proud of its diverse heritage and its cultural and
racial variety will preserve its heritage of dialects. We affirm strongly
that teachers must have the experiences a ...
This document discusses strategies for teaching diverse learners through recognition and respect of classroom diversity. The author reflects on their teaching philosophy of engendering respect among students from various backgrounds. Respect can be built by including diverse perspectives in the curriculum, validating different cultures and identities, and maintaining high expectations of all students. Small group learning and inclusion of varied literary works can help make content more accessible and relevant to diverse learners.
This document provides biographical and professional information about Theodore S. Ransaw Ph.D. It includes his contact information, education history, dissertation and thesis topics, current position as a research specialist at Michigan State University, previous positions held, university teaching experience, and research interests in areas related to gender, culture and racial implications in education.
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AN0119616678;acd01nov.16;2016Nov23.12:00;v2.2.500 Faculty members sometimes unknowingly or inadvertently contribute to a racist climate in their classrooms. But they can take steps to address racism more effectively in their teaching
Last year, at dozens of colleges and universities across the United States, students protested institutional unresponsiveness to pervasive issues of racial inequity. Most media attention disproportionately focused on the popularity of the protests as opposed to the actual issues underlying campus unrest. For example, instead of deeply exploring the experiences that ignited demonstrations among students at the University of Missouri, journalists wrote mostly about the football team's threat to cancel its game against Brigham Young University, the potential financial implications of the team's activism, and the eventual resignations of the system president and the chancellor of the university's flagship campus. Similarly, news coverage of protests at Yale University concentrated less on students' frustrations with the university's climate of racial exclusion and more on e-mails about potentially offensive Halloween costumes and perceived threats to free speech.
It is important for faculty members to understand that students were protesting racism. It is also essential that professors recognize how they, often unknowingly and inadvertently, say and do racist things to students of color in the classroom. Student uprisings were as much a response to negative experiences with their peers and administrators as they were expressions of frustration with the cultural incompetence of their teachers. Students of color did not suddenly start experiencing racist stereotyping and racially derogatory comments, disregard for the thoughtful integration of their cultural histories in the curriculum, and threats to their sense of belonging in college classrooms during the 2015-16 academic year. We know from our work as scholars at the University of Pennsylvania's Center for the Study of Race and Equity in Education that these problems are long-standing.
College presidents, provosts, deans, and other institutional leaders hire researchers from the Center for the Study of Race and Equity in Education to spend three to four days on their campuses doing racial climate assessments. At some places we are asked to focus on racial and ethnic differences among faculty and staff members in their feelings of inclusion, respectability, and opportunities for fair and equitable professional advancement, as well as on racial tensions in workplace settings. But on most campuses, administrators ask us to assess the racial climate for students -- feelings of inclusion and belonging across racial and ethnic groups, the extent to which students interact substantively across difference, where and what students learn about race, appraisals of institutional commitments to fostering inclusive environments, and characterizations of the supportiveness of cla.
This document provides biographical and professional information about Theodore S. Ransaw Ph.D. It includes his contact information, education background including a Ph.D. from the University of Nevada Las Vegas and dissertation topic. It lists his current position as an Equity Specialist at Michigan State University and previous positions including as a Research Specialist and Education Specialist. It outlines his university teaching experience and classroom experience outside of the university. It also lists refereed journal publications and academic book publications.
Gloria Ladson-Billings But Thats Just Good Teaching! Th.docxwhittemorelucilla
Gloria Ladson-Billings
But That's Just Good Teaching! The Case
for Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
FOR THE PAST 6 YEARS I have been engaged in
research with excellent teachers of African American
students (see, for example, Ladson-Billings, 1990,
1992b, 1992c, 1994). Given the dismal academic
performance of many African American students (The
College Board, 1985), I am not surprised that various
administrators, teachers, and teacher educators have
asked me to share and discuss my findings so that
they might incorporate them in their work. One usual
response to what I share is the comment around which
I have based this article, "But, that's just good
teaching!" Instead of some "magic bullet" or intricate
formula and steps for instruction, some members of
my audience are shocked to hear what seems to them
like some rather routine teaching strategies that are a
part of good teaching. My response is to affirm that,
indeed, I am describing good teaching, and to
question why so little of it seems to be occurring in
the classrooms populated by African American
students.
The pedagogical excellence I have studied is
good teaching, but it is much more than that. This
article is an attempt to describe a pedagogy I have
come to identify as "culturally relevant" (Ladson-
Billings, 1992a) and to argue for its centrality in the
academic success of African American and other
children who have not been well served by our
nation's public schools. First, I provide some
background information about
Gloria Ladson-Billings is associate professor of education at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison.
THEORY lNTO PRACTICE, Volume 34, Number 3, Summer 1995
Copyright 1995 College of Education, The Ohio State University
0040-5841/95$1.25
other attempts to look at linkages between school
and culture. Next, I discuss the theoretical grounding
of culturally relevant teaching in the context of a 3-
year study of successful teachers of African
American students. I conclude this discussion with
further examples of this pedagogy in action.
Linking Schooling and Culture
Native American educator Cornel Pewewardy
(1993) asserts that one of the reasons Indian children
experience difficulty in schools is that educators
traditionally have attempted to insert culture into the
education, instead of inserting education into the
culture. This notion is, in all probability, true for
many students who are not a part of the White,
middle-class mainstream. For almost 15 years,
anthropologists have looked at ways to develop a
closer fit between students' home culture and the
school. This work has had a variety of labels
including "culturally appropriate" (Au & Jordan,
1981), "culturally congruent" (Mohatt & Erickson,
1981), "culturally responsive" (Cazden & Leggett,
1981; Erickson & Mohatt, 1982), and "culturally
compatible" (Jordan, 1985; Vogt, Jordan, ...
This document discusses the challenges facing gifted and talented African American students. It begins by providing context for the author's interest in this issue through his personal background. It then discusses several key challenges:
1) Underrepresentation of minority students in gifted programs. Many gifted African American students attend underperforming urban schools without gifted programs.
2) Underachievement among gifted African American students due to sociopsychological, family, and school factors like low self-esteem and less supportive environments.
3) Cultural threats from the pressure to assimilate to white culture which can lead students to feel devalued or stigmatized due to negative stereotypes. This "stereotype threat" is said to contribute
Teaching Literature across Cultures English Literature at Iranian Universitiesshafieyan
1. Teaching literature across cultures can be controversial as literature deals with cultural topics like religion, gender, class, and race that differ across societies.
2. When teaching English literature at Iranian universities, issues like gender and religion are especially significant, while racial and ethnic issues are less prominent.
3. Theories from various scholars on teaching literature across cultures are analyzed and applied to the Iranian cultural context to determine their relevance and any necessary adaptations. The findings suggest that with awareness of cultural differences and proper application, a teacher can successfully teach literature that reconciles different or opposing cultures.
ARTICLEStudents’ Right to Their Own Language”A Counter.docxfredharris32
ARTICLE
“Students’ Right to Their Own Language”:
A Counter-Argument
Jeff Zorn
Published online: 6 July 2010
# Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010
Dedication
I learned to teach English at a Historically Black College in Alabama
under the guidance of no-nonsense African American women. Studying
“Students’ Right to Their Own Language,” a resolution affirming the
legitimacy of dialect from the National Council of Teachers of English
(NCTE), when it first appeared in the early 1970s, my mentors saw
beneficent intent but blatant shortcoming. Betty Gates, my most inspirational
colleague, said, and I am quoting exactly, “With friends like these, black
children hardly need enemies.”
“Students’ Right to Their Own Language” remains the official position
statement of the guild of college compositionists on dialect difference,
lionized to this day as a first principle of “liberatory” English teaching. My
mentors would be sorely disappointed to learn this. It is in respectful memory
of these excellent English teachers—Betty Gates and Emma Cleveland in
particular—that I offer my counter-argument.
“Students’ Right to Their Own Language”: The Beginnings
The sound, kind impulse behind “Students’ Right to Their Own
Language” (SRTOL) was to support the aspirations of poor, nonwhite, and
Acad. Quest. (2010) 23:311–326
DOI 10.1007/s12129-010-9175-x
Jeff Zorn is professor of English at Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA 95053; [email protected]
culturally marginalized students. The document itself, however, offered
underachievement and provincialism to the students it purported to serve.
Even its advocates concede that SRTOL reads as committee prose with the
different hands not smoothly blended, but no one has said firmly enough, or
demonstrated patiently enough, how little sense SRTOL makes.1
In 1973 the Conference on College Composition and Communication of
the National Council of Teachers of English approved the SRTOL resolution.
A special edition of College Composition and Communication then printed
that resolution for general distribution, prefaced it with a rationale, and
appended fifteen sections of commentary. Even a cursory glance at the
resolution itself makes plain why a full booklet was needed to begin
explaining it to fellow professionals:
We affirm the students’ right to their own patterns and varieties of
language—the dialects of their nurture or whatever dialects in which
they find their own identity and style. Language scholars long ago
denied that the myth of a standard American dialect had any validity.
The claim that any one dialect is unacceptable amounts to an attempt
of one social group to exert its dominance over another. Such a claim
leads to false advice for speakers and writers, and immoral advice for
humans. A nation proud of its diverse heritage and its cultural and
racial variety will preserve its heritage of dialects. We affirm strongly
that teachers must have the experiences a ...
This document discusses strategies for teaching diverse learners through recognition and respect of classroom diversity. The author reflects on their teaching philosophy of engendering respect among students from various backgrounds. Respect can be built by including diverse perspectives in the curriculum, validating different cultures and identities, and maintaining high expectations of all students. Small group learning and inclusion of varied literary works can help make content more accessible and relevant to diverse learners.
This document provides biographical and professional information about Theodore S. Ransaw Ph.D. It includes his contact information, education history, dissertation and thesis topics, current position as a research specialist at Michigan State University, previous positions held, university teaching experience, and research interests in areas related to gender, culture and racial implications in education.
This document provides a summary of a research paper about determinants of student motivation for learning English abroad. It begins with an anecdote about a recent college graduate, Sarah, who teaches English in Thailand but finds it more difficult than expected due to large class sizes and unmotivated students. The document then reviews literature on the history of teaching English abroad and factors that influence student motivation. Research studies from several countries identified themes like increased autonomy and positive classroom environments improving motivation, while language proficiency and cultural differences impact motivation. To validate these findings, the author conducted a survey of English teachers. The results generally aligned with the literature but identified some differences. Student motivation is also examined through the lens of transformational leadership theory.
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Hi Katharine Mitchell,
I am Jessica Waldorf, a scholar research in Sex and Gender for 5 years, who just travel to Santa Cruz. And I write this paper for suggesting that UCSC should add a new major or some courses for students, which deal with the topic of Sex and Gender.
Over the last couple of years, significant changes have taken place in the world. As the world has entered the “Internet Age”, it has changed the entire face of the world, how life used to be and how things are right now. With this border context, some emerging problems which might be only cared for by a small group of people might evolve a heated discussion. Nowadays, with more and more incident and city news came out, like Harvey Weinstein’s and Trump’s sexual harassment news, more and more people start to care about “Sex and Gender” problems. What’s more, recently, in the scientific community, interdisciplinary research become a general trend of subject development. Because of this, the research of “Sex and Gender” as a cross-disciplinary subject must have more and more scientists to commit. The importance of Sex and Gender research can also be understood by the statement of Carol Colaterlla who is the associate dean at the Ivan Allen CLA and also co-director of the Center for the Study of Technology at the Georgia Institute of Technology, “Gender students as a field illustrates the potential of interdisciplinary scholarship in today’s scientific and technical university” (Carol, 2014). How can we miss the chance to build up such a subject, which is popular and have scientific research value, in such a beautiful campus?
In the United States, sex and gender education has always remained a hot debate or issue. “While the debate about sex and gender studies are mostly related to grad school and high school, there were rarely any talk about the discussion of sex and gender course at the collegiate level or graduation level” (Sollie, Donna & Kaetz, 1992). This actually tells a lot about as educationists and as a nation, we have failed to understand the importance of this education for students and how it will help them in the rest of their lives. Because of the resource available nowadays, there remains no reason why gender and sex courses should not become a part of educational institutions and teach to students. This is a humble effort of convincing the school to include gender and sex courses in their curriculum and play their part in educating students and prepare them for life completely. It should be taught as an essential course to all students – regardless of their fields. Just like language composition, report writing and math is taught to every student, sex and gender courses should also be introduced in the school. This task can be accomplished by creating multiple courses that meet the health science general education requirements. Although, we are always debate about when sex education shoul.
Identifying the attitudes and traits of teachers with an at-risk student popu...Mastura Kamal
This document summarizes a study that aimed to identify the attitudes and traits of teachers who are effective at teaching at-risk students in a diverse, urban high school (Mendoza High School). Through interviews and a focus group with teachers, administrators, and counselors, the researchers identified several supportive attitudes and traits, including being culturally responsive, focusing on small successes, encouraging students, flexibility, and caring. Relationships with students and viewing oneself as a difference-maker were also seen as important. Non-supportive traits included blaming, racial attitudes, inflexibility due to frustration, co-dependency, and lack of respect for community/parents. Overall, forming relationships and caring for students were seen as core to effective
Resisting Total Marginality: Understanding African-American College Students’...QUESTJOURNAL
This document summarizes a research paper that explores how African American students attending predominantly white institutions (PWIs) develop their racial identity and achieve academic success despite facing marginalization. The paper examines how total marginality, defined as the cumulative dissonance Black students face on campus, impacts identity development and success. It reviews literature on racial identity and oppositional culture theories. The study was conducted through interviews at a Midwestern state university to understand how successful Black students resisted total marginality and developed their racial identity. The findings provide insight into how peer groups, environment, and embracing their racial identity can help Black students graduate from PWIs.
This document discusses myths and misunderstandings about the learning styles of adult Chinese learners in Hong Kong. It addresses three main topics: 1) Received opinions about the influence of Chinese culture and Confucian values on passive rote learning styles are challenged by more recent research. 2) Effective adult learning involves developmental stages that may differ from childhood learning. 3) Surveys and case studies of Hong Kong adult learners suggest they are receptive to new active learning modes and adopt styles different than in school. The arguments provide wider insight into understanding Hong Kong and Chinese adult learners beyond the stereotypes.
POWERFUL PEDAGOGY FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDENTS. A Case of Four Teachers. TYR...eraser Juan José Calderón
POWERFUL PEDAGOGY FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDENTS. A Case of Four Teachers. TYRONE C. HOWARD
The Ohio State University
The disproportionate underachievement of African American students may suggest that teacher effectiveness with this student population has been limited. However, amidst these widespread academic failures, characterizations of effective
teachers of African American students have emerged in an attempt to reverse these
disturbing trends. This article examines the findings from a qualitative case study
of four elementary school teachers in urban settings. The findings reveal teaching
practices consistent with various norms espoused by African American students in
a manner that could be termed “culturally relevant.” In this article, three of the
major pedagogical themes are discussed: holistic instructional strategies, culturally consistent communicative competencies, and skill-building strategies to promote academic success.
This document discusses a study that used photographs to counter negative narratives about urban high schools and the young men of color who attend them. A research team interviewed 325 high-achieving Black and Latino male juniors and seniors at 40 New York City public high schools. The team also took over 500 photographs in the schools to document aspects of the school environments that contradicted typical perceptions. Using techniques from visual sociology and critical race theory, the photographs were analyzed to construct alternative, positive narratives about urban schools and the young men of color they educate. The goal was to provide a more balanced perspective beyond the usual focus in research on problems and underachievement.
Countering Age-Related StereotypesMany people fear and dread t.docxfaithxdunce63732
Countering Age-Related Stereotypes
Many people fear and dread the late adulthood stage of life because they believe what awaits them is ill health and cognitive decline. While that description fits some adults in later life, it certainly does not describe them all. Many older adults lead healthy, active lives and are closely connected to their families and communities. However, stereotypes related to aging are extremely prevalent in our culture and strongly influence our attitudes toward aging. Use your textbook and the Argosy University online library resources to research age-related stereotypes.
Read about one of the largest centenarian studies conducted in the U.S. at the following Web site:
· The University of Georgia Institute of Gerontology, College of Public Health.Georgia Centenarian Study. Retrieved fromhttp://www.publichealth.uga.edu/geron/research/centenarian-study
Create a chart evaluating three age-related stereotypes listing evidence that supports the stereotype (if it exists) and evidence that contradicts the stereotype. Be sure to include references for each stereotype. Present the information in a chart as shown:
Stereotype
Evidence in Support of Stereotype
Evidence that Contradicts Stereotype
1.
2.
3.
Based on your readings and research, describe at least one strategy for creating more positive views of aging in our culture.
Write a 1–2-page paper in Word format and include your chart. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.
Use a minimum of four resources and use examples to explain your quotes and or references
Assignment 2 Grading Criteria
Maximum Points
Gathered relevant and important data on three age-related stereotypes.
30
Presented data in support of and contradicting stereotypes in a chart for easy comparison.
25
Analyzed and applied research information to develop strategy for positive view.
25
Wrote in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrated ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; displayed accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
20
Total:
100
GO BACK TO TEACHING BASIC WRITING SKILLS
Lexington Herald-Leader (KY) - Monday, January 23, 2006
Author: Donna Slone
My greatest fear in grades seven through 12 in the 1960s was that my English teacher would make good on her daily threats.
"I'm going to pinch your ears off and pitch you out the window," she shrieked whenever she caught a student daydreaming or unprepared.
Irene Slusher struck fear into the hearts of every student who entered her classroom on the second floor of Jackson City School in Breathitt County.
And we all had to enter.
Mrs. Slusher taught English to everyone at the school. I was one of 18 in the 1968 graduating class.
From her, we learned the parts of speech and the rules of punctuation. We never ended a sentence with a preposition. We learned to diagram sentences, and we
memorized and recited poems. We didn't dare turn in an assignment without first editing it for gramma.
The Benefits of a Diverse Teaching Force 12 15-13Vic Nixon
Many school districts in Texas promote diversity in their mission statements. Some actually promote teacher diversity on their campuses. Is this done to be politically correct or are there actual measureable benefits for having diverse teachers in schools? This presentation explores the research-based reasons how a diverse teaching force is related to student achievement.
This document summarizes a study on the academic persistence of 5 African American female alumni from a midwestern Catholic university. 3 key findings emerged from interviews:
1. The students had positive perceptions of faculty and staff, viewing them as treating students equally and allowing personal experiences to be incorporated into classwork.
2. The students had negative views of peer collaboration, preferring to study alone as they learned at different paces. Tutoring was only sought in dire circumstances.
3. The students desired close, personal relationships with faculty/staff members, viewing their advisors as guardians rather than just course advisors. This suggests faculty/staff played an important role in the students' persistence.
This document summarizes key sections and examples from the book "Rethinking Multicultural Education: Teaching for Racial and Cultural Justice" edited by Wayne Au. The book provides a framework for anti-racist, social justice education and gives concrete classroom strategies and lessons. It addresses issues of race, culture, language, and student identity. Various chapters model ways for teachers to critically address issues of inequality, confront notions of race in the classroom, and create learning environments that value students' unique backgrounds and cultures. The goal is to help educators apply anti-racist and multicultural principles in practical ways to transform their pedagogy and empower all students.
Recognizing Written ArgumentFor this weeks discussion, Id like.docxdanas19
Recognizing Written Argument
For this week's discussion, I'd like you to respond to ONE of the short articles that appear at the end of Chapter 3: Marybeth Gasman's "To Educate a Diverse Nation, Topple the Ivory Tower," (92-93), Randy Cohen's "When Texting is Wrong" (96-97), or "Flag Protection: A Brief History of Recent Supreme Court Decisions" (101-102) . After reading the articles, select one to analyze, focusing on a few (not all) of the following questions:
1) What is the main issue in the article? 2) What are the author's attitudes toward the subject at issue? 3) What supporting material favors the author's point of view? 4) What is the author's intention in this article? To explain? To convince? 5) What does the author hope you will conclude when you finish reading? 6) How does the author establish his or her authority? 7) What qualities make the article effective or ineffective as an argument? 8) What are your personal reactions to the essay? 9) How much common ground do you have with the author? 10) What do you like or dislike about it? Justify your answer with evidence from the article.
(page 92-93) ESSAY #2 TO EDUCATE A DIVERSE NATION, TOPPLE THE IVORY TOWER*
*“To Educate a Diverse Nation, Topple the Ivory Tower,” by Marybeth Gasman, from The Huffington Post, November 2, 2015. Reproduced by permission.
Marybeth Gasman
The author is a professor of education at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education and is also a regular contributor to The Huffington Post.
Visit a U.S. college campus today and you’ll see a more diverse student body than ever before. Over the last 30 years, the number of Hispanic students has risen five-fold, Asian and Pacific Islander enrollment has tripled, black enrollment has risen 150 percent and Native American enrollment has doubled.
But the graduation rate for minority students falls far below the nationwide average. Our colleges and universities are not succeeding at educating students with diverse backgrounds. In an increasingly competitive global economy, our country cannot afford this waste of time, money and talent.
There are solutions to this problem, but they’re found outside the ivory tower. Over the past three years, we visited a dozen minority-serving institutions or MSIs—from Paul Quinn, a historically black college in Dallas, to Salish Kootenai, a tribal college in Montana, and San Diego City College. We learned a number of lessons—all of which run counter to mainstream higher education thinking.
First and most important, these colleges acknowledge that traditionally underrepresented students face challenges that go far beyond paying tuition. These range from family obligations to fear and uncertainty about the meaning of college to “math shame” and speaking English as a second language. In response, the colleges have toppled the traditional hierarchies and responsibilities of faculty, staff, and students. Everyone is expected to understand the challenges.
Dr. Mary Bonderoff presented on strategies for creating more inclusive classrooms. She discussed issues facing students from their perspectives, such as feeling pressure to perform better than white classmates. She outlined common missteps by faculty, like not acknowledging bias or ignoring student experiences. Strategies included using personal narratives, addressing identity in the classroom, and being mindful of language. The presentation provided scenarios to discuss inclusive responses and resources for further researching inclusive pedagogy.
Dr. James Banks developed the concept of "five dimensions of multicultural education" to help educators understand that multicultural education involves more than just content integration. The five dimensions are: 1) content integration, 2) knowledge construction, 3) equity pedagogy, 4) prejudice reduction, and 5) empowering school culture and social structure. Banks explains each dimension in detail, emphasizing that moving through the dimensions allows more teachers to incorporate multicultural education and that the goal is to prepare students for participation in a democratic and harmonious society.
Problems in Educational PsychologyJournal article assignment d.docxbriancrawford30935
Problems in Educational Psychology
Journal article assignment due April 9, 2017
1. Read the two attached articles .
2. Respond to the following questions (print for class):
· Compare and contrast the ways King and Knapp each characterize the challenges associated with preparing teachers to educate diverse learners?
· What is dysconscious racism and how does it impede educational equity? (use examples from King’s article)
· How does Knapp depart from “traditional psychology” in her use of educational psychology to shape teacher pedagogy? What strategies does she use to teach pre-service teachers about the nature of teaching to reach all students?
· What are your ideas (or questions) about how educational psychologists can adopt a more structural perspective and/or critical approach to our research on classroom issues?
walk into the first class session of my introductory
educational psychology course for preservice teachers
and start writing on the board—the course number, my
name, and the following statement: There are a thou-
sand good ways to teach, and some really bad ones!
As we wait for the inevitable latecomers who are still
trying to find the room or figuring out the bus system,
students fill out a personal information sheet that asks for
their names, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, majors,
and the answer to the question: “In your own experience,
what things help you actually learn in classes? Please list
as many factors as possible.”
After everyone has a chance to think and write, we go
around the room introducing ourselves. Starting with
me, each person shares his or her name, career goal, and
one of the things that helps him or her learn. As they
talk, I write down each factor they identify, ending up
with a list of thirty or so different things on the board.
Then, looking at all of these, we talk about how different
we are in what helps us learn. Some of us really benefit
from an organized lecture, while others hate lectures and
learn best through small group discussion. Some want
notes in outline form on the overhead, while others
understand visuals or diagrams better. But we also talk
about how we are the same: no one ever says they learn
best when they aren’t allowed to ask questions, or when
the teacher is disorganized, unenthusiastic, or gives no
concrete examples of the concepts being taught. Finally,
I point out that the different learning preferences my stu-
dents have shared are only one aspect of the dilemma of
student diversity that is common to all teachers: How
can I try to meet all of my students’ different learning
preferences, needs, and goals in one class, one class-
room? This then leads me into the syllabus and why I
have chosen to structure the class as I have.
The Need to Prepare Teachers for Diversity
Our introductory educational psychology course is
usually the first education course taken by preservice
teachers at the University of Georgia. I teach one sec-
tion of thirty-five students, mostly fre.
The document discusses diversity in science and the important contributions of women and minority groups that have often gone unrecognized. It argues that having diversity in gender, race, and ethnicity allows people to be more open-minded, industrious, and innovative. However, in many cases individuals from underrepresented groups face barriers because of their gender, race or ethnicity. The document provides examples of prominent female scientists like Rosalind Franklin and Françoise Barré-Sinoussi who made impactful discoveries but received little recognition. It maintains that diversity fuels excellence in science regardless of attributes like gender or ethnicity.
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JAMES A. BANKS, Series Editor
Is Everyone Really Equal? An Introduction to Key Concepts in Social Justice
Education, Second Edition
ÖZLEM SENSOY AND ROBIN DIANGELO
Teaching for Equity in Complex Times: Negotiating Standards in a High-
Performing Bilingual School
JAMY STILLMAN AND LAUREN ANDERSON
Transforming Educational Pathways for Chicana/o Students: A Critical Race
Feminista Praxis
DOLORES DELGADO BERNAL AND ENRIQUE ALEMÁN, JR.
Un-Standardizing Curriculum: Multicultural Teaching in the Standards-Based
Classroom, 2nd Edition
CHRISTINE E. SLEETER AND JUDITH FLORES CARMONA
Global Migration, Diversity, and Civic Education: Improving Policy and Practice
JAMES A. BANKS, MARCELO SUÁREZ-OROZCO, AND MIRIAM BEN-PERETZ,
EDS.
Reclaiming the Multicultural Roots of U.S. Curriculum: Communities of Color and
Official Knowledge in Education
WAYNE AU, ANTHONY L. BROWN, AND DOLORES CALDERÓN
Human Rights and Schooling: An Ethical Framework for Teaching for Social
Justice
AUDREY OSLER
We Can’t Teach What We Don’t Know: White Teachers, Multiracial Schools,
Third Edition
GARY R. HOWARD
Teaching and Learning on the Verge: Democratic Education in Action
SHANTI ELLIOTT
Engaging the “Race Question”: Accountability and Equity in U.S. Higher
Education
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MICHAEL VAVRUS
First Freire: Early Writings in Social Justice Education
CARLOS ALBERTO TORRES
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WOODBURY, AND NICOLE LOUIE, EDS.
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Race, Empire, and English Language Teaching: Creating Responsible and Ethical
Anti-Racist Practice
SUHANTHIE MOTHA
Black Male(d): Peril and Promise in the Education of African American Males
TYRONE C. HOWARD
LGBTQ Youth and Education: Policies and Practices
CRIS MAYO
Race Frameworks: A Multidimensional Theory of Racism and Education
ZEUS LEONARDO
Reaching and Teaching Students in Poverty: Strategies for Erasing the Opportunity
Gap
PAUL C. GORSKI
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PETER W. COOKSON JR.
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U.S. Schools
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Education
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Through Public Policy
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Schools
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GUADALUPE VALDÉS, SARAH CAPITELLI, AND LAURA ALVAREZ
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For this week's discussion, I'd like you to respond to ONE of the short articles that appear at the end of Chapter 3: Marybeth Gasman's "To Educate a Diverse Nation, Topple the Ivory Tower," (92-93), Randy Cohen's "When Texting is Wrong" (96-97), or "Flag Protection: A Brief History of Recent Supreme Court Decisions" (101-102) . After reading the articles, select one to analyze, focusing on a few (not all) of the following questions:
1) What is the main issue in the article? 2) What are the author's attitudes toward the subject at issue? 3) What supporting material favors the author's point of view? 4) What is the author's intention in this article? To explain? To convince? 5) What does the author hope you will conclude when you finish reading? 6) How does the author establish his or her authority? 7) What qualities make the article effective or ineffective as an argument? 8) What are your personal reactions to the essay? 9) How much common ground do you have with the author? 10) What do you like or dislike about it? Justify your answer with evidence from the article.
(page 92-93) ESSAY #2 TO EDUCATE A DIVERSE NATION, TOPPLE THE IVORY TOWER*
*“To Educate a Diverse Nation, Topple the Ivory Tower,” by Marybeth Gasman, from The Huffington Post, November 2, 2015. Reproduced by permission.
Marybeth Gasman
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But the graduation rate for minority students falls far below the nationwide average. Our colleges and universities are not succeeding at educating students with diverse backgrounds. In an increasingly competitive global economy, our country cannot afford this waste of time, money and talent.
There are solutions to this problem, but they’re found outside the ivory tower. Over the past three years, we visited a dozen minority-serving institutions or MSIs—from Paul Quinn, a historically black college in Dallas, to Salish Kootenai, a tribal college in Montana, and San Diego City College. We learned a number of lessons—all of which run counter to mainstream higher education thinking.
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Problems in Educational Psychology
Journal article assignment due April 9, 2017
1. Read the two attached articles .
2. Respond to the following questions (print for class):
· Compare and contrast the ways King and Knapp each characterize the challenges associated with preparing teachers to educate diverse learners?
· What is dysconscious racism and how does it impede educational equity? (use examples from King’s article)
· How does Knapp depart from “traditional psychology” in her use of educational psychology to shape teacher pedagogy? What strategies does she use to teach pre-service teachers about the nature of teaching to reach all students?
· What are your ideas (or questions) about how educational psychologists can adopt a more structural perspective and/or critical approach to our research on classroom issues?
walk into the first class session of my introductory
educational psychology course for preservice teachers
and start writing on the board—the course number, my
name, and the following statement: There are a thou-
sand good ways to teach, and some really bad ones!
As we wait for the inevitable latecomers who are still
trying to find the room or figuring out the bus system,
students fill out a personal information sheet that asks for
their names, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, majors,
and the answer to the question: “In your own experience,
what things help you actually learn in classes? Please list
as many factors as possible.”
After everyone has a chance to think and write, we go
around the room introducing ourselves. Starting with
me, each person shares his or her name, career goal, and
one of the things that helps him or her learn. As they
talk, I write down each factor they identify, ending up
with a list of thirty or so different things on the board.
Then, looking at all of these, we talk about how different
we are in what helps us learn. Some of us really benefit
from an organized lecture, while others hate lectures and
learn best through small group discussion. Some want
notes in outline form on the overhead, while others
understand visuals or diagrams better. But we also talk
about how we are the same: no one ever says they learn
best when they aren’t allowed to ask questions, or when
the teacher is disorganized, unenthusiastic, or gives no
concrete examples of the concepts being taught. Finally,
I point out that the different learning preferences my stu-
dents have shared are only one aspect of the dilemma of
student diversity that is common to all teachers: How
can I try to meet all of my students’ different learning
preferences, needs, and goals in one class, one class-
room? This then leads me into the syllabus and why I
have chosen to structure the class as I have.
The Need to Prepare Teachers for Diversity
Our introductory educational psychology course is
usually the first education course taken by preservice
teachers at the University of Georgia. I teach one sec-
tion of thirty-five students, mostly fre.
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Chapter wise All Notes of First year Basic Civil Engineering
Syllabus
Chapter-1
Introduction to objective, scope and outcome the subject
Chapter 2
Introduction: Scope and Specialization of Civil Engineering, Role of civil Engineer in Society, Impact of infrastructural development on economy of country.
Chapter 3
Surveying: Object Principles & Types of Surveying; Site Plans, Plans & Maps; Scales & Unit of different Measurements.
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Chapter 4
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Chapter 5
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Chapter 6
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A Primer On Learning Styles Reaching Every Student
1. ARTICLES
A Primer on Learning Styles: Reaching Every Student
M.H. Sam Jacobson*
The days of The PaperChase
1 are over, or so the law schools at
Harvard and other universities announce. 2 But, are they? In The Pa-
per Chase, Professor Kingsfield teaches Contracts to a class of ap-
proximately 150 first-year students at Harvard. He is the master of
his classroom: He wields the Socratic method like an intellectual
sword, intimidating, if not terrorizing, many of his students in the
process. He berates students for not speaking up or for not being pre-
pared. He evaluates students on a single exam at the end of the
course. Then, at the end of the year, he still does not know his stu-
dents' names.
So what has changed? Law school classes may be smaller and the
professor less rude or remote, but the instruction and method of
evaluation generally remain the same. Brooks, the student with a pho-
* Instructor, Willamette University College of Law. B.S., University of Oregon; J.D., Univer-
sity of Iowa College of Law. Special thanks to all of the students who have allowed me to learn
from them.
1. THE PAPER CHASE (Twentieth Century Fox 1973) (a movie and subsequent television
series, depicting the first year oflaw school at Harvard).
2. See, e.g., Seth Stern, HarvardLaw Changesthe Pace of Its PaperChase, CHRISTIAN SCI.
MONITOR, Oct. 24, 2000, at 13, availableat http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2000/10/24/
fp13sl -csm.shtml (announcing the creation of seven law colleges in the first-year class of Har-
vard Law School to shrink the size of sections from 140 to 78 students and to improve faculty-
student interaction); Vermont Law School, at http://law.vermontlaw.edu/orientation/
asp/director.htm (last visited Aug. 11, 2001) (announcing that the "days of Professor Kingsfield
of The Paper Chase infamy are over"); Tony Mauro, Online Law School Challenges Precedents,
USA TODAY, Oct. 12, 1999 (distinguishing Concord University School of Law from The Paper
Chasebecause, as an all-internet law school, it has no ivy-covered buildings, looming law profes-
sors, or quaking students), at http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/ctg403.htm; Univer-
sity of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law, at http://www.louisville.edu/brandeislaw/
welcome/brandeis facts.htm (last visited Aug. 11, 2001) (espousing a law school culture based
on civility and respect for all students and faculty, avoiding "paper chase" or "cutthroat" law
school stereotypes).
2. Seattle University Law Review
tographic memory, still would claim to not have what it takes to suc-
ceed because of his inability to analyze the data. Bell, the student with
a 190 I.Q. who was fifth generation Harvard, still would generate an
800-page course outline ("better than the book") because he did not
know what the focus of the course or his analysis should be. Finally,
O'Connell still would be overwhelmed by the volume of work, unable
to keep up. These students, all very bright, would flounder in today's
law school just as they did in The Paper Chase because their habitual
ways of learning do not correspond with law school's way of teaching
and these students do not know how to adapt.
In addition, the law student population has changed both in the
way the students have been learning and in their make-up. First, no
longer do all of the students enter law school because of their mastery
of books. Grade school rooms have tables, not desks, and no one is
sitting very still. High school English classes teach Shakespeare by
showing a movie. University classes grade group, not individual, pro-
jects. And at every level of education, the rooms are filled with com-
puters, alive with color and motion, beeps and clicks. Yet when these
students reach law school, professors too often expect them to sit still,
work alone, and learn either through written materials or in the class-
room hot seat. Professors are too often disappointed when they do
not.
Second, law students are far more diverse than in previous gen-
erations.3 This diversity in ethnicity and gender also represents diver-
sity in thought.4 As a result of these changes, law teaching must nec-
3. In academic year 1971-72, the law student population was 91% male, 9% female, 94%
white, and 6% minority. In academic year 1999-2000, the law student population was 53% male,
47% female, 81% white, and 19% minority. In 28 years, female enrollment increased nearly 700%
and minority enrollment increased 450%. In addition, the representation of minorities has
changed. In 1971-72, African Americans represented 67% of all minorities in law school, Native
Americans were less than 3%, Asian American/Pacific Islanders were less than 9%, Mexican
Americans were 16%, Puerto Ricans (excluding Puerto Rican law schools) were less than 2%, and
other Hispanics were 3%. In 1999-2000, African Americans were only 37% of all minorities in
law school, Native Americans were 4%, Asian American/Pacific Islanders were 31%, Mexican
Americans were 10%, Puerto Ricans (excluding Puerto Rican law schools) were less than 3%, and
other Hispanics were 16% (exceeds 100% due to rounding). Percentages Derived from American
Bar Association Data, at http://www.abanet.org/legaled/statistics/stats.html (last visited June
30, 2000).
4. Generally, white females, African-Americans, Native Americans, and Hispanic Ameri-
cans tend to process information, solve problems, and think in diverse ways from European
American and Asian American males. James A. Anderson & Maurianne Adams, Acknowledging
the Learning Styles of Diverse Student Populations: Implications for Instructional Design, in
TEACHING FOR DIVERSITY 21-23 (Laura L.B. Border & Nancy Van Note Chism eds., 1992).
For example, Native American students appear ... to be more skilled in performing
tasks than in verbal expression, more visual than auditory linguistic, more oriented
toward observation or imitation than toward verbal instruction, and more comfortable
with spatial than with sequential activities and with group, peer, or cross-age learning
[Vol. 25:139
3. LearningStyles
essarily change as well-but how? For all law professors, whether new
or experienced, knowing something about learning styles will enhance
the professors' teaching and their students' ability to master the mate-
rial. Many authors and researchers have written extensively about
learning styles, but the literature can be daunting to the uninitiated.'
A plethora of articles exists, and they all seem to be discussing differ-
ent things. How do professors compare them? How can professors
evaluate what is helpful and what is not? How does the information
apply to teaching law? If students have unique learning styles, how do
professors teach to a class of 100 students?
This article establishes a framework that will put the literature
into perspective, will allow professors to evaluate what is meant by
"learning style," and will give them guidance for how to be more
effective teachers both in the classroom and out. Part I discusses how
knowledge of learning styles will help professors achieve their peda-
gogical goals. Part II discusses the personal characteristics that con-
tribute to learning style. Finally, Part III applies the learning styles to
the learning cycle and discusses how professors can most effectively
help their students grow.
projects than with individual question-and-answer sessions. Chicano socialization
endorses cooperative interactions oriented toward helping others rather than individu-
alistic competition. African-American students often communicate through peer rela-
tionships that support group learning or group (but not individual) competitions,
simulations, and role plays.... [R]esearch on female college student... found typi-
cal and recurrent differences from the white, male norm in their female subjects: af-
filiation rather than separation, an identity oriented toward relationships rather than
toward autonomy, and a preference for collaborative or cooperative interaction rather
than competitive achievement.
Id. at 21-22 (citations omitted). See, e.g., Yvonne R. Bell, A Culturally Sensitive Analysis of
Black LearningStyle, 20 J. BLACK PSYCHOL. 47, 47-61 (1994); see also, e.g., JANICE E. HALE-
BENSON, BLACK CHILDREN: THEIR ROOTS, CULTURE, AND LEARNING STYLES (1986);
Grace C. Cooper, Black Languageand Holistic CognitiveStyle, 5 W.J. BLACK STUD. 201 (1981);
Manuel R. Ramirez III & Douglass R. Price-Williams, Cognitive Style of Three Ethnic Groupsin
the United States, 5 J. CROSS-CULTURAL PSYCHOL. 212, 212-217 (1974); Charles G. Moore,
The Implicationof String Figuresfor American Indian MathematicsEducation, 28 J. AM. INDIAN
EDUC. 16, 16-26 (1988); Gerry D. Haukoos & Robert Satterfield, Learning Styles of Minority
Students (Native Americans) and Their Application in Developing a Culturally Sensitive Science
Classroom, 10 COMMUNITY/JUNIOR C. 193, 193-201 (1986); ELISABETH HAYES & DANIELE
D. FLANNERY, WOMEN AS LEARNERS: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF GENDER IN ADULT
LEARNING (2000).
5. Even to the initiated, the literature can be confusing. Authors mean different things
when they use the term "learning styles" and no unified theory exists. SHARAN B. MERRIAM &
ROSEMARY S. CAFFARELLA, LEARNING IN ADULTHOOD: A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE 209
(2000).
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I. KNOWLEDGE OF LAW STUDENTS' LEARNING STYLES WILL
HELP PROFESSORS ACHIEVE PEDAGOGICAL GOALS
Why should professors be concerned with learning styles? Sim-
ply stated, when teachers teach in ways that acknowledge and validate
different styles of learning, students do better. No common definition
of learning style exists, but generally, learning styles are those cogni-
tive, affective, and psychological behaviors that indicate how learners
interact with and respond to the learning environment and how they
perceive, process, store, and recall what they are attempting to learn.6
By applying some basic concepts of learning styles in the classroom,
professors can improve student retention of information, help students
develop more efficient and effective study methods, increase student
self-awareness of how students learn best, and help move students to a
higher or more evolved level of thinking. Most important, professors
can improve student success in law school.
For teachers of law, the primary goal is to help law students mas-
ter the doctrinal or substantive material of their law courses and apply
that information using various legal skills such as legal analysis or ad-
vocacy. Law professors assess whether students have mastered the
material, usually through an examination or paper, and assign them a
grade. However, not all students do equally well. This inequality is a
concern because the students may not have another opportunity to
master the material, which they will need to pass the bar and to ade-
quately represent their clients. Professors can help their students
achieve their full potentials by teaching to the diverse learning styles
in the classroom.
Teaching to diverse learning styles helps students in two signifi-
cant ways. First, students will be more successful in mastering their
coursework if they are better able to absorb, process, and retain infor-
mation. Second, students will be more successful in mastering their
coursework if they learn how they learn best. When students learn
how they learn best, they engage in metacognition. Metacognition in-
volves knowing how one learns and what results one achieves from
different learning processes; it involves self-regulation of cognitive ac-
tivities through monitoring and making appropriate adjustments.'
6. See J.W. KEEFE, STUDENT LEARNING STYLES: DIAGNOSING AND PRESCRIBING
PROGRAMS 4 (1979). Alternatively stated, learning styles are "the complex manner in which,
and conditions under which, learners most efficiently and most effectively perceive, process,
store[,] and recall what they are attempting to learn." Waynne B.James & William E. Blank,
Review and CritiqueofAvailable Learning-Style Instructorsfor Adults, in APPLYING COGNITIVE
LEARNING THEORY TO ADULT LEARNING 47-48 (Daniele D. Flannery ed., 1993).
7. Paul T. Wangerin, LearningStrategiesfor Law Students, 52 ALB. L. REV. 471, 474-77
(1988). See Catherine A. Stouch, What InstructorsNeed to Know About LearningHow to Learn,
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When professors teach to diverse learning styles, students will become
aware of different learning processes and can assess which ones work
best for them in given situations. Most significantly, students may
discover that their traditional methods of studying are not adequate to
achieve analytical competence.
Teaching to diverse styles will also move law students to a
higher, more evolved level of thinking because the students can adjust
their cognitive activity to the desired outcome. Professors know some-
thing that beginning law students do not: one cannot do well in law
school solely by memorizing. While professors may know this intui-
tively, they may not know why this is true. The answer comes from
the education psychology literature: memorization will not generate
the desired outcomes of synthesis, application, and analysis. These
are different levels of learning, and what is required to achieve each
level is different.8 While different schemata of the levels of learning
exist,9 most are derivative of Bloom's Taxonomy of EducationalObjec-
tives.1
" For our purposes, we can simplify the taxonomy to three man-
ageable levels: knowledge, comprehension and sorting, and analysis.
For law students to master analysis, law professors must teach in
a way that guides students from the simplest level of learning, knowl-
edge based on memorization, to the most complex level of learning,
analysis. Law students are comfortable with the former, but inexperi-
enced with the latter." Whether law students are achieving the higher
in APPLYING COGNITIVE LEARNING THEORY TO ADULT LEARNING 59-60 (Daniele D.
Flannery ed., 1993) (identifying three components to learning how to learn: knowledge about
learning, knowledge about learning style, and skills to improve proficiency).
8. See A COMMITTEE OF COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY EXAMINERS, TAXONOMY OF
EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES: THE CLASSIFICATION OF EDUCATIONAL GOALS, HANDBOOK
I: COGNITIVE DOMAIN 62 (Benjamin S. Bloom ed., 1956) [hereinafter Bloom].
9. While scholars might characterize the levels somewhat differently, they generally follow
the same pattern. E.g., John W. Thomas & William D. Rohwer, Academic Studying: The Role of
LearningStrategies,21 EDUC. PSYCHOLOGIST 19, 22 (1986) (three kinds ofinformational prod-
ucts exist: verbatim, interpreted, and constructed knowledge).
10. Bloom, supra note 9. In Bloom's taxonomy, the first level of learning is knowledge.
Knowledge is derived from memorization. Id. at 62-88. The next levels of learning, in ascend-
ing order, are (a) comprehension, including translation, interpretation, and extrapolation; (b) ap-
plication; (c) analysis, including elements, relationships, and organizational principles; (d) syn-
thesis; and (e) evaluation. Id. at 89-197. For our purposes, we can simplify these levels
somewhat. The last four levels are integral aspects of legal analysis: the need to synthesize the
law from binding authorities to create an analytical framework, to apply it, and to evaluate the
strengths and weaknesses ofthat application. Therefore, we can combine them, leaving us with a
more manageable three levels.
11. See Michael L. Richmond, Teaching Law to Passive Learners: The Contemporary Di-
lemma of Legal Education, 26 CUMB. L. REV. 943, 955-56 (1995-96) (discussing how pre-law
education promotes rote memorization in contrast to law education, which promotes independent
thinking and advanced problem-solving, and noting that students suffer significant culture shock
in law school when introduced to its active learning environment); JOSEPH D. NOVAK,
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levels of learning required for studying law is evidenced through their
levels of understanding. 12 Students reach a high level of understand-
ing when they can apply information, detail the analysis, and con-
clude.13 A lesser level of understanding occurs when students can ap-
ply information and come to conclusions, but with no detail in the
analysis. 4
Below that, a second lesser level of understanding occurs
when students' work is descriptive, although detailed. Finally, the
lowest level of understanding occurs when students' work is descrip-
tive, but without detail. 5 To illustrate these categories in the context
of studying law:
Detail No detail
Analysis
Description
Students whose work is descriptive have a low level of under-
standing, relying solely on memorization. To achieve a deeper or
higher level of understanding, more than memorization is necessary.
Achieving a deeper understanding requires active learning, i.e., ques-
tioning and relating, rather than passive learning, i.e., neutral absorp-
LEARNING, CREATING, AND USING KNOWLEDGE 20, 69-70 (1998) (noting that most school
learning involves rote learning, illustrated by verbatim acquisition of new knowledge, and most
college and secondary students resist moving beyond memorization to more meaningful learning,
preferring instead to get by on memorization). Descriptive intelligence may result in good grades
in earlier education experiences, see, e.g., Jack E. Robinson & Jerry L. Gray, Cognitive Style as a
Variablein School Learning, 66 J. EDUC. PSYCHOL. 793, 794, 798 (1974) (a descriptive cognitive
style was the most important contributor to school learning for fifth graders), but it is not the
intelligence for success in graduate programs like law school, ROBERT J. STERNBERG, THE
TRIARCHIC MIND: A NEW THEORY OF INTELLIGENCE 55-57 (1989) (practical intelligence is
needed as well).
12. NOEL ENTWISTLE, STYLES OF LEARNING AND TEACHING: AN INTEGRATED
OUTLINE OF EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY FOR STUDENTS, TEACHERS, AND LECTURERS
76-77 (1981).
13. See id.
14. Id.
15. Id.
#1: Deep level of understanding #2: Deep level of understanding
illustrated by a strong analytical illustrated by a strong analytical
framework and reasoning by anal- framework, but reasoning by
ogy that includes detailed discus- analogy lacks detail and is more
sion of authorities and facts conclusory
#3: Surface level of understanding #4: Surface level ofunderstand-
illustrated by detailed description ing illustrated by description of
ofauthorities but without a clear authorities but without detail or
analytical purpose clear analytical purpose
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tion. 6 Unfortunately, many law students have achieved academic
success prior to law school primarily through memorization.17 Now,
those memorization skills will be sorely challenged: (1) because those
memorization skills may not be sufficient to handle the substantial in-
crease in information that the students must master; and (2) because
those memorization skills are inadequate to move the students to the
higher level of learning needed for success in law school. Professors
can help ameliorate the dissonance between what led to academic suc-
cess before law school and what leads to academic success in law
school by helping their students learn how to learn effectively. By un-
derstanding different learning styles, professors can help students
master the critical thinking that will lead the students both to a deeper
understanding of the material and to the analytical learning necessary
to succeed in the study of law.
II. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO
STUDENTS' LEARNING STYLES
Different personal characteristics contribute to students' learning
styles. For example, learning styles might be reflected in organizing
material in logical steps, preferring lectures over writing, or taking
notes on a yellow pad. However, these are not comparable things.
This section will discuss the personal characteristics that contribute to
learning style, placing them in a hierarchy that can help professors de-
termine what they can accommodate in their teaching, and what stu-
dents can address in their learning
16. Deeper understanding requires greater mental effort. Gavriel Salomon, The Differential
Investment of Mental Effort in Learningfrom Different Sources, 18 EDUC. PSYCHOLOGIST 42, 43
(1983). Understanding occurs the more that the learner mentally elaborates on the material; the
more contact with other mental schemata that the learner has, the more memory traces and en-
riched meanings the learner creates. Id. at 44. Active learning helps the learner to mentally
elaborate on material. See ENTWISTLE, supra note 12, at 77. Active readers determine what
arguments the author is making and question what they are reading by interpreting and prioritiz-
ing the author's points, evaluating the adequacy or inadequacy of support for arguments, and
connecting what they are reading to their personal experiences. Id. at 77-78. In contrast, passive
readers look for the general point, skip over the details, do not prioritize the information, and
may have problems concentrating on what the author is saying. Id. at 78. Resources available on
active reading include CRAIG K. MAYFIELD, READING SKILLS FOR LAW STUDENTS 11 (1980),
which recommends the SQ3R system developed by Francis P. Robinson in FRANCIS P.
ROBINSON, EFFECTIVE STUDY 15-40 (4th ed. 1970). In this system, the reader surveys the ma-
terial by reading the chapter title, introductory paragraphs, headings, and summary (if any);
questions the material by asking who, what, when, where, why, and how; reads to answer the
questions; records brief answers to the questions, recites the answers from memory; repeats this
process for each part of the reading; and reviews the reading by reciting all answers from mem-
ory. MAYFIELD, supra, at 11-12.
17. For example, students rely on memorization when they cram for exams or when they
take multiple-choice or essay exams that ask students to recall information or describe events.
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Learning styles are affected by a number of characteristics, in-
cluding a person's intelligence, personality, information processing
mechanisms, social interaction needs, and instructional preferences.8
As this diagram indicates, these characteristics are not equally suscep-
tible to change:
Least susceptible to change Intelligence; personality
Information processing, including absorbing
information and processing information
Social interaction, including motivation and
social milieu
Most susceptible to change Instructional preference, including learning
environment
The personal characteristics least subject to change are intelligence
and personality.19 The personal characteristics more subject to change
are, in descending order, information processing, social interaction,
and instructional preference.2
" The following sections will describe
each personal characteristic in order from the least susceptible to the
most susceptible to change.
A. Intelligence
The first personal characteristic affecting learning style is the
type of intelligence.21 Since intelligence is relatively fixed,22 informa-
18. CHARLES CLAXTON & PATRICIA MURRELL, LEARNING STYLES: IMPLICATIONS
FOR IMPROVING EDUCATIONAL PROCESSES 7 (1987) (citing Lynn Curry, An Organization of
Learning Styles Theory and Constructs, Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American
Educational Research Association (Apr. 11-15, 1983), at 3-4 (ERIC Document Reproduction
Service No. ED 235 185)).
19. CLAXTON & MURRELL, supra note 19; H. J. EYSENCK, KNOWING YOUR OWN I.Q.
17-19 (1962) (discussing the permanency of I.Q.); CARL G. JUNG, PSYCHOLOGICAL TYPES
330-32 (1971) (originally published in 1923) (personality attitudes of introversion and extrover-
sion and personality functions of perceiving and judging are biologically determined).
20. CLAXTON & MURRELL, supra note19.
21. In addition to assuring that a person has an adequate capacity to learn the material, in-
telligence contributes to learning style in two ways: (1) the type of intelligence may affect a per-
son's learning style, and (2) a learning disability or problem in the wiring of the brain may affect
a person's learning style. This article will discuss the former but not the latter except to the ex-
tent that the learning disabilities are reflected in preferences for absorbing and processing infor-
mation. Nonetheless, learning disabilities substantially affect the manner in which the person
with the disability can learn. Recent studies ofthe brain indicate that the brain wires itself from
9. LearningStyles
tion about intelligence's contribution to learning style will help profes-
sors learn what tools they can use to compensate for or accommodate
intelligence, rather than how to improve it.
Traditionally, intelligence in this country has been measured by
mathematical/logical and linguistic skills.23 However, Howard Gard-
ner, professor of education at Harvard University, believes this view of
intelligence is far too narrow, reflecting only those skills valued by
post-industrial societies.24 After studying prodigies, gifted individu-
als, brain-damaged patients, idiot savants, normal children and adults,
experts in different lines of work, and individuals from cultures
around the world,25 Gardner concluded that eight different intelligen-
ces exist:26 linguistic intelligence (words), logical-mathematical intelli-
gence (chains of reasoning), musical intelligence (melody, rhythm,
timbre), spatial intelligence (seeing from different angles, imagining
movement, multi-dimensional thinking), bodily-kinesthetic intelli-
gence (bodily motions, handling objects), interpersonal intelligence
(knowing the feelings and intentions of others), intrapersonal intelli-
gence (knowing yourself), and naturalist intelligence (distinguishing
among, classifying, and using features ofthe environment).
2
To the extent that these multiple intelligences are represented in
law students, students can use these other forms of intelligence to
the time of birth. RONALD KOTULAK, INSIDE THE BRAIN: REVOLUTIONARY DISCOVERIES
OF HOW THE BRAIN WORKS 6-7 (1996). If a child is not exposed to certain stimulation, the
brain will not be wired to process that stimulation efficiently, if at all. Id. at 16-17. Instead, the
child must use other non-specific wiring to accomplish the task. Id. at 21-23, 29, 36; HOWARD
GARDNER, FRAMES OF MIND 54 (1983) [hereinafter FRAMES OF MIND].
When the brain is sufficiently, although inefficiently, wired for the task, tools may exist to
assist students, such as a spell checker or grammar checker. In addition, students with learning
disabilities can learn by relying on other modes of absorbing information, infra notes 49-65, and
by using organizational tools for visual learners, infra notes 56-61, and holistic processors, infra
notes 95-98. Generally, learning disabilities are associated with problems in reading (e.g., dys-
lexia), concentration (e.g., attention deficit disorder), or organization (e.g., dyslexia, attention
deficit disorder).
22. However, some believe that intelligence can be taught and improved. See, e.g.,
ROBERT J. STERNBERG, INTELLIGENCE APPLIED: UNDERSTANDING AND INCREASING YOUR
INTELLECTUAL SKILLS (1986).
23. FRAMES OF MIND, supra note 21, at 24. The most widely used intelligence tests are
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised and the Primary Mental Abilities Test; both test
heavily on verbal skills and, to a lesser extent, on mathematical skills and reasoning. MERRIAM
& CAFFARELLA, supranote 5, at 171-72.
24. FRAMES OF MIND, supra note 21, at 24.
25. Id. at 9.
26. Id. at 73-276 (discussing seven intelligences); HOWARD GARDNER, INTELLIGENCE
REFRAMED: MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY 49, 59, 66, 68, 76 (1999)
(adding an eighth intelligence, naturalist, but rejecting spiritual, existential, and moral intelligen-
ces).
27. Id. at 43-44, 49.
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master legal analytical skills that students traditionally learn through
linguistic or logical-mathematical intelligences. For example, a person
with strong spatial intelligence can use diagrams to represent logical
chains of reasoning. However, professors have no way of knowing
their students' abilities in all of these intelligences since only two are
tested routinely.28 Nonetheless, professors can use this general knowl-
edge of different intelligences to understand how their students may
prefer to absorb information.
B. Personality
The second personal characteristic affecting learning style is per-
sonality. The leading theorist of personality is Carl Jung.2
9 Jung ob-
served patterns in human behavior that he categorized as "attitude-
types" and "function-types."3 "Attitude-types" describe personali-
ties that direct interest either toward or away from external objects or
events, i.e., extroversion and introversion. 1 "Function-types" de-
scribe the manner in which personalities direct their interest, i.e., sen-
sation, intuition, thinking, and feeling.32 While several personality as-
sessments are well-recognized,33 many law teachers have used the
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), a personality assessment based
on Jung's theory of psychological type, as a tool to help their students
28. However, at least one educator has developed a measure of multiple intelligences. See,
e.g., Veronica Borruso Emig, A MultipleIntelligencesSurvey, 55 EDUC. LEADERSHIP 47 (1997).
29. JUNG, supranote 19.
30. Id. at 330.
31. Mary H. McCaulley, The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator: A Jungian Model for Problem
Solving, in DEVELOPING CRITICAL THINKING AND PROBLEM-SOLVING ABILITIES 40 (James
E. Stice ed., 1987).
32. JUNG, supra note 19, at 330, 436-37.
33. E.g., KATHARINE C. BRIGGS & ISABEL B. MYERS, MYERS-BRIGGS TYPE INDICATOR
(1976) (Jungian-based instrument that determines 16 personality types based on 4 bipolar scales:
extroversion-introversion, sensing-intuition, thinking-feeling, judging-perception); ALLEN L.
EDWARDS, EDWARDS PERSONAL PREFERENCE SCHEDULE (1959), discussed in 1 TEST
CRITIQUES 252-58 (Daniel J. Keyser & Richard C. Sweetland eds., 1984) (widely used personal-
ity inventory that assesses 15 variables: Achievement, Deference, Order, Exhibition, Autonomy,
Affiliation, Intraception, Succorance, Dominance, Abasement, Nurturance, Change, Endurance,
Heterosexuality, Aggression); DAVID KEIRSEY & MARILYN BATES, PLEASE UNDERSTAND ME:
CHARACTER AND TEMPERAMENT TYPES 30-66 (1984) (Jungian-based assessment of four
temperaments: Dionysian, Epimethean, Promethean, and Apollonian); DON RICHARD RISO,
DISCOVERING YOUR PERSONALITY TYPE: THE ENNEAGRAM QUESTIONNAIRE 5, 10-15
(1992) (instrument based on ancient understandings of personality; instrument determines nine
personality types in three triads: Feeling Triad (Helper, Status Seeker, Artist), Doing Triad
(Thinker, Loyalist, Generalist), Relating Triad (Leader, Peacemaker, Reformer)); JUNE SINGER
& MARY LOOMIS, SINGER-LOOMIS TYPE DEPLOYMENT INVENTORY (1984) (Jungian-based
personality inventory of Jung's eight basic personality types).
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better understand how they learn.34
Based on Carl Jung's theory of
psychological types,3
" the MBTI is a psychological instrument that as-
sesses preferences on four bi-polar scales,36 creating sixteen personality
types, each with a four-letter designation.37 Despite its use by some,
the MBTI may not be the best tool to use for assessing learning styles
in law school.3"
First, the MBTI was not developed to measure cognitive style.
Rather, it was developed to implement Jung's personality typology,39
so any contribution it may make to understanding cognitive style is
only indirect. While some of the items on the MBTI may concern
cognitive style,4" others have no relevance.4' This means that profes-
sors can only draw general conclusions about cognitive style from the
personality types. Second, the MBTI may not measure the aspects of
cognitive processing of most concern to law teachers: how the students
prefer to absorb information and how they process the information to
reach their end result.42 Since personality styles are not ways of learn-
ing, only influences on learning,43 what will be more useful is to assess
how personality style is reflected in the way that our students learn,
that is, how our students absorb and process information.
34. E.g., Vernellia R. Randall, The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, First Year Law Students
and Performance,26 CUMB. L. REV. 63 (1995).
35. JUNG, supranote 19.
36. Extroversion-Introversion, Sensing-Intuition, Thinking-Feeling, and Judgment-
Perception. ISABEL BRIGGS MYERS & MARY H. MCCAULLEY, MANUAL: A GUIDE TO THE
DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF THE MYERS-BRIGGS TYPE INDICATOR 16-17 (2d ed. 1985)
[hereinafter MANUAL].
37. Id. For a more complete description of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator ("MBTI"),
see M.H. Sam Jacobson, Using the Myers-BriggsType Indicatorto Assess LearningStyle: Type or
Stereotype?, 33 WILLAMETTE L. REV. 261, 262-69 (1997). For a discussion of its limitations,
see id. at 269-304.
38. Jacobson, supra note 37, at 301. In addition, using the MBTI may have negative con-
sequences because it contributes to stereotyping by grouping people into sixteen categories and
assigning each category characteristics that individuals within the category may not have. For
further discussion, see id. at 270-80.
39. MANUAL, supra note 36, at 1; ROWAN BAYNE, THE MYERS-BRIGGS TYPE
INDICATOR: A CRITICAL REVIEW AND PRACTICAL GUIDE 15-16 (1st ed. 1996). Bayne states
the goals ofthe
40. For example, item 21 asks: "Do you usually (A) value sentiment more than logic, or (B)
logic more than sentiment?" David M. Schweiger, MeasuringManagerialCognitive Styles: On
the Logical Validity of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator,13 J. Bus. RES. 315, 317 (1985) (quoting
Form G of the MBTI).
41. For example, item 67 asks the answerer to select between: (A) signsymbol (B)
and item 54 asks the answerer to select between: (A) whowhat (B). Id.
42. Jacobson, supranote 37, at 301-04 (MBTI does not measure how one absorbs informa-
tion or cognitive processing).
43. SHARON L. SILVERMAN & MARTHA E. CASAZZA, LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT:
MAKING CONNECTIONS TO ENHANCE TEACHING 45 (2000).
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C. Information Processing
The third personal characteristic affecting learning style is how
students absorb and process information.44 Developmental learning
theorists envision stages of cognitive development that occur as a child
ages.4
" Experiential learning theorists build on that by extending the
developmental stages into adulthood and including the effect that ex-
perience has on the learning process.46 This concept of change in the
learning process because of experience is validated by professors' own
experiences of personal and professional growth. If the learning proc-
ess is fluid, then professors can guide their students to improved learn-
ing. Professors can do that by considering how their students absorb
information and how they process the information that they have ab-
sorbed.
1. Absorbing Information
How students absorb information is a significant aspect of learn-
ing style.47 If students are not fully absorbing critical information, the
most sophisticated processing of the information will not matter since
it involves inadequate input. It would be like playing solitaire without
a full deck. When comparing how professors expect students to ab-
sorb information with how students actually do absorb information, a
significant dissonance may occur, which can dramatically affect per-
formance.
People absorb information through their senses: sight, hearing,
touch, taste, and smell. Sight allows a person to absorb information
verbally, i.e., reading, or visually, i.e., through pictures or designs.
44. How susceptible this characteristic is to change is a matter of some dispute. Generally,
rationalist and other cognitive theories of learning, and behavioral learning theories view how
someone absorbs and processes information to be fixed, just as intelligence and the wiring of the
brain are fixed. See Jerre Levy, InterhemisphericCollaboration:Singlemindednessin the Assymmet-
tic Brain, in HEMISPHERIC FUNCTION AND COLLABORATION IN THE CHILD 11-31 (Catherine
T. Best ed., 1985); see alsoJ.M. Levy, Experiments on Attention and Memory, with Special Refer-
ence to the Psychology of Advertising, 2 U. CAL. PUBLICATIONS PSYCHOL. 157, 195 (1916).
However, developmental and experiential learning theorists view this characteristic as susceptible
to change. See DAVID A. KOLB, EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING: EXPERIENCE AS THE SOURCE OF
LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT 3-15 (1984) (discussing how developmental and experiential
learning theorists view learning as a process of change); see also WALTER B. BARBE ET AL.,
TEACHING THROUGH MODALITY STRENGTHS: CONCEPTS AND PRACTICES 3, 52-53 (1988)
(rejecting modality as a fixed neurological characteristic and discussing the changes of modality
preferences with age).
45. JOHN L. PHILLIPS, JR., THE ORIGINS OF INTELLECT: PIAGET'S THEORY 7 (1969)
(giving an overview ofPiaget's theory).
46. KOLB, supranote 44, at 1-38, 140-59.
47. Students' preferred learning mode may be the most significant aspect of their learning
style. See William Wesley Patton, Opening Students' Eyes: Visual Learningin the Socratic Class-
room, 15 LAW & PSYCHOL. REV. 1, 1 n.3 (1991).
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Hearing allows a person to absorb information by listening to oneself
speak (orally) or by hearing others speak (aurally). Touch allows a
person to absorb information tactilely or kinesthetically. Taste and
smell generally would not be significant modes of absorbing informa-
tion in law school.48
While students use all of these modes for absorbing information,
some students learn better when they absorb information in a particu-
lar way. A verbal learner is one who best absorbs information through
reading or writing text. A visual learner is one who best absorbs in-
formation through pictures, diagrams, and other models of informa-
tion rather than through written text. An oral learner is one who best
absorbs information by talking out ideas. An aural learner is one who
best absorbs information by listening, e.g., by using tapes or lectures.
A tactile learner needs to be able to touch and manipulate. Finally, a
kinesthetic learner needs to be able to move around or to see move-
ment, e.g., motion of the instructor in the classroom.
a. Verbal Learners
Most law students are strong verbal learners who absorb infor-
mation best through written text. In law school, information is pri-
marily conveyed through written materials although the written mate-
rials are supplemented with classroom lecture or discussion. Because
of law school's heavy reliance on written materials, students who learn
more effectively by absorbing information through modes other than
through reading may have difficulty.4" While most students in law
school are good verbal learners, many are not.
b. VisualLearners
A significant number of students are visual learners and that
number appears to be increasing,"
0 perhaps because of the early use of
computers or because of early instruction designed to appeal to differ-
ent intelligences."1 Even more significantly, visual learners in law
48. However, a scratch and sniff curriculum has not yet been tested.
49. Vernellia Randall, Director, Academic Excellence Program, University of Dayton
School of Law, has long been involved in academic support. She believes that reading ability is
the key predictor of law school success. E-mail from Vernellia Randall to <asp-l@chicagokent.
kentlaw.edu>, Reading Comprehension Test (July 18, 1997) (on file with author).
50. When the first started teaching in 1989, less than 10% of her students were visual learn-
ers. Now, approximately 30% of her students are visual learners. The increasingly visual culture
was also recognized by Diane Kirrane in Visual Learning,46 TRAINING & DEV. 58 (1992).
51. Many elementary and secondary schools have incorporated Gardner's multiple intelli-
gences into their classrooms. A sample of publications discussing the use of multiple intelligen-
ces in the classroom is available in the ERIC records. Multiple Intelligences: Theory and Practice
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school may be disproportionately represented in the bottom of the
class. 12
Why would this occur? Visual learners tend to be right-brain, or
holistic, thinkers rather than left-brain, or logical, thinkers.
5 3 This
means that they absorb information in its entirety, rather than in
parts. Visual learners have a picture of the information that they ab-
sorb. Visual learners might mentally scroll down to page five, para-
graph three of the text to recall what was written. When visual learn-
ers prepare an outline, they do not remember the information in the
outline because of doing the outline, but because they can mentally see
what they wrote. Visual learners remember an idea, not because of the
idea itself, but by where it appears on a page. They also remember
what a professor said because of the professor's movements or visual
aids.
While absorbing information verbatim may be good for memo-
rizing and effective for description, it is problematic for legal analysis
for several reasons. The information absorbed is not synthesized with
other ideas, a skill needed to establish an analytical framework; it is
not prioritized, a skill needed to eliminate the irrelevant; and it does
not establish the connections between ideas, a skill needed to under-
stand and critically evaluate the reasoning and logical support for the
ideas.
To assist visual learners, professors can accommodate visual
modes of absorbing information in their classrooms and in their one-
on-one sessions with students without much difficulty. 4 In general,
professors can select or prepare texts that present the material in a
visually enhanced manner, e.g., with charts, diagrams, insets, shading
or color, or if visually stimulating text is not available, professors can
supplement the text with visually stimulating materials that illustrate
the analytical concepts. In the classroom, professors can complement
their presentations by making good use of the board by using color for
in the K-12 Classroom, at http://www.indiana.edu/-eric-rec/ieo/bibs/multiple.html (last vis-
ited Aug. 11, 2001) (listing 45 citations from the ERIC Database and five other Web sites).
52. For example, nearly all of the students who fail Legal Research & Writing at Wil-
lamette University College of Law are visual learners. Of the fifty-two students since 1995 who
were required to take a remedial summer Legal Research & Writing course, thirty-nine were vis-
ual learners, three were oral learners, five were oral/visual learners, and only five were verbal
learners.
53. KOLB, supranote 44, at 46-50.
54. Visuals help all students retain information, not just those who are visual learners.
Studies on memory indicate that learners remember pictures better than words or sentences. See,
e.g., Susumi Kobayashi, TheoreticalIssues ConcerningSuperiority ofPicturesover Words and Sen-
tences in Memory, 63 PERCEPTUAL & MOTOR SKILLS 783, 783-792 (reviewing the results of
studies and the four main theories for explaining this phenomenon).
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lists or outlines to categorize or prioritize; using diagrams or other vis-
ual models to show the relationship between ideas; and using video,
overheads, charts, or other visual tools. In addition, professors can
encourage students to use visual tools like T-charts5 to collect infor-
mation in an analytically useful way so that relationships between
ideas will be more clear.
In one-on-one sessions with students, these same visual aids
would also help to illustrate the conversation even if simply drawn on
notepaper.
5 6 To help students improve the quality of the information
that they absorb from their reading, students might use color high-
lighters to mark different aspects of the text 57 or make analytically-
focused margin notes. When reading cases, some visual learners find
it helpful to visualize the case as a play or television show; the charac-
ters help to understand ideas, the plot helps to establish relationships
between ideas, and the affectations of the characters help prioritize in-
formation. To help establish the relationship between ideas in a sen-
tence, visual learners might try diagramming sentences. To help es-
tablish the relationship between cases or statutes and cases, professors
can encourage visual learners to use charts or diagrams instead of Ro-
man style outlines.
5 8 Some visual learners prefer to organize using pic-
tures or drawings. Appendix A illustrates two different visual organ-
izers for how to properly plead a claim: a concept map and a picture.
55. T-charts are a note-taking technique that derive their name from drawing a big T on a
piece of paper. The use of T-charts is illustrated in M.H. Sam Jacobson, ProvidingAcademic
Support Withoutan Academic Support Program,3 J. LEGAL WRITING 246, 246-49 (1997).
56. This technique is probably effective for all students, not just those who are visual learn-
ers. Studies on memory indicate that learners remember pictures better than words or sentences.
See, e.g., Kobayashi, supranote 54 (reviewing the results of studies and the four main theories
for explaining this phenomenon). No matter how simple a depiction may be, the comment that
the author receives from nearly every student when she creates visual depictions ofwhat she and
her students are discussing is, "Can I have that?"
57. The use ofcolor improves learning for learners who are visually oriented. FRANCIS M.
DWYER & DAVID M. MOORE, EFFECT OF COLOR CODING ON COGNITIVE STYLE, Paper
Presented at the Proceedings of Selected Research and Development Presentations at the Con-
vention of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology and Sponsored by
the Research and Theory Division, at 7 (1992) (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. 347
986); David M. Moore & Francis M. Dwyer, Effect of Color-Codingon Locus of Control, 24
INT'L J. INSTRUCTIONAL MEDIA 145, 146-47 (1997); FRANCIS M. DWYER, STRATEGIES FOR
IMPROVING VISUAL LEARNING (1978).
58. Computer software is available to help visual learners organize material, including most
presentation software packaged with word processing suites. Software designed specifically for
educators and visual learners includes Inspiration, available from Inspiration Software, Inc. of
Portland, Oregon. This software allows the user to create a visual organizer, e.g., concept map,
web, or diagram, and then convert it to a traditional outline format. I have also used the program
backwards by entering a traditional outline and converting it to a visual format.
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Helping visual students to organize will have a dramatic effect on their
performances.59
c. OralLearners
Following verbal learners and visual learners, the next most
common learner is one whose strong mode of absorbing information is
oral. Students who come from an environment with an oral tradition
are often oral learners. 60 Students who are oral learners need to talk
out their ideas. They are the students who frequently contribute to
class discussion as their way of processing information or developing
ideas. They are the students who get a D on their appellate brief but
win the oral competition. For oral learners to thrive, they need to have
opportunities to talk.
Professors can assist oral learners in their classrooms and in one-
on-one sessions by giving them opportunities to talk. In the class-
room, breaking the students into small groups for a project or discus-
sion will give more students the opportunity to talk, including those
oral learners who are too intimidated to contribute to discussion in the
full class or who are eager to contribute but may not have sufficient
opportunity. Some oral learners may have too much opportunity to
talk in the classroom; those who contribute too often may be scorned
by their peers when their ideas are undeveloped, and dreaded by their
professors because their ideas may not be furthering class discussion.
59. See Patton, supranote 47, at 2-3. Studies cited in this article indicate that poor learners
are poor organizers. Id. at 2 n.9 (citing Thomas J. Shuell, The Effect of Instructionsto Organize
for Good and PoorLearners, 7 INTELLIGENCE 271, 272-78 (1983)). When students were helped
to develop organizational skills appropriate to their learning style, the difference in performance
between good and poor learners was approximately cut in half. Id. at 3 n.14 (citing Shuell, supra
note 60, at 282). For additional ideas on how material can be visually organized, see Matthew J.
McCloskey, Comment, Visualizing the Law: Methods for Mapping the Legal Landscape and
DrawingAnalogies, 73 WASH. L. REV. 163 (1998) (includes examples of visual metaphors);
CORINNE COOPER, GETTING GRAPHIC 2: VISUAL TOOLS FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING
LAW (1994); TONY BUZAN, THE MIND MAP BOOK (1993); Joseph D. Novak, Concept Maps
and Vee Diagrams: Two Metacognitive Tools to Facilitate Meaningful Learning, 19
INSTRUCTIONAL SCI. 3, 29-33 (1990); Benjamin Moshe-Nevah et al., Use of the Ordered Tree
Technique to Assess Students' Initial Knowledge and Conceptual Learning, 16 TEACHING
PSYCHOL. 182, 184, 186 (1989); RICHARD SINATRA, VISUAL LITERACY CONNECTIONS TO
THINKING, READING, AND WRITING 170-71, 234-45 (1986); Alice M. Derr & Chris L. Pe-
ters, The Geometric Organizer:A Study Technique, 21 ACAD. THERAPY 357, 357-66 (1986).
60. African American learning styles have roots in West African culture, which is pre-
dominately oral and relational. HALE-BENSON, supra note 5, at 14-16. Generally, children's
cultural values are reflected in their learning behaviors. DARLENE M. FIERRO, IS THERE A
DIFFERENCE IN LEARNING STYLE AMONG CULTURES? 1 (1997) (ERIC Document Reproduc-
tion Service No. ED 415 974) (citing Francesina R. Jackson, A Sixth-Sense CulturalSensitivity,
25(2) LEARNING 67-71 (1996)); HERMAN A. WITKIN & D.R. GOODENAUGH, COGNITIVE
STYLES: ESSENCE AND ORIGIN 81-82 (1981).
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However, these oral learners can orally process the material in class
without dominating class discussion. For example, professors can en-
courage these students to engage in a silent conversation with them-
selves: the students can answer the professors' questions within their
heads, and then compare their answers to those given by other stu-
dents.
In addition, professors can encourage oral learners to work
through class material by discussing it with their professors during of-
fice hours, with tutors or teaching assistants, or in study groups.
These same resources would also be available for discussing text. Fi-
nally, professors can encourage oral learners to improve their absorp-
tion oftext by reading aloud when studying alone.
d. Aural Learners
The next most common learners are those whose strong mode of
absorbing information is aural.61 Aural learners learn well from listen-
ing to lectures, class discussions, study group discussions, the profes-
sor, tutors, teaching assistants, or tapes. Aural learners may improve
their absorption of information by seeking out additional opportunities
to listen, e.g., by taping their classes for later review, or by minimizing
distractions while listening, e.g., by taking fewer notes in class, by not
taking notes on a laptop, or by sitting in the front of the classroom.
e. Tactileand KinestheticLearners
Finally, the least common learners in law school are those whose
strongest modes of absorbing information are tactile or kinesthetic.
However, many law students learn better if they can complement an-
other mode of absorbing information with a tactile or kinesthetic
mode, e.g., by touching and feeling what they are to absorb. Learners
who are strongly tactile or kinesthetic learn well by doing. In the
classroom, this might include simulations, role-playing, clinical ex-
periences, and other skills or experiential activities. Outside the class-
room, this might include externships, internships, and clerkships.
Tactile learners may do better with a handout or a book in hand. Kin-
61. While most students have had extensive experience with aural learning, it usually is not
the dominant mode for absorbing information. See Robert S. Ristow et al., LearningPreferences:
A Comparisonof Gifted and Above-Average Middle GradesStudents in Small Schools, 8 ROEPER
REV. 119, 119-24 (1986); Emily D. Stewart, Learning Styles Among Gifted/Talented Students:
InstructionalTechnique Preferences48 EXCEPTIONAL CHILD. 134, 134-38 (1981). However, it
may be the dominant mode for Native Americans. Gregory A. Cajete, The Native American
Learner and Bicultural Science Education, in NEXT STEPS: RESEARCH AND PRACTICE TO
ADVANCE INDIAN EDUCATION 135, 141 (Karen Gayton Swisher & John Tippeconnic eds.,
1999).
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esthetic learners may do better if they can move around when they
study, e.g., by moving to music, standing, or pacing. Both tactile and
kinesthetic learners may learn well from computer-aided instruction,
including CALI tutorials.
f. AccommodatingDifferent Styles ofAbsorbing Information
The preferred learning mode of many students may not be read-
ily apparent to professors or even known by the student. This is be-
cause most students have done well in the verbal mode and have not
yet been sufficiently challenged by the workload or the higher level of
learning required for law school to know that the verbal mode of ab-
sorbing information is not efficient for them. How, then, do profes-
sors teach to the different learning modes?
First, professors generally can teach to all learning modes since
their classes most likely include each type of learner. For example,
professors can provide written materials or resources in advance of
class and use class time to visually and orally review and further ex-
plore key concepts in the materials. In addition, professors can pro-
vide opportunities for students to do something with the materials,
whether it be to work though a hypothetical provided in advance of
class or to complete an assignment. Many professors already integrate
their classes, if not to teach to diverse learning modes, then to make
their classes more interesting.
However, this integration may not be sufficient for all students.
To enable those students to modify their study rituals so that they
complement their preferred learning modes, professors may want to
help those students determine what their preferred learning modes are.
While a number of evaluations exist for determining preferred modes
of absorbing information," the simple checklist and series of true-false
62. E.g., Walter B. Barbe & Michael N. Milone, Jr., Modality, 89 INSTRUCTOR 44, 46
(1980) (Barbe-Milone Modality Checklist) (the 10 items in this instrument test three modali-
ties-visual, auditory, and kinesthetic); BARBE, supra note 44, at 35 (Swassing-Barbe Modality
Index) (instrument tests recall within three modalities); ALBERT A. CANFIELD, CANFIELD
LEARNING STYLES INVENTORY FORM S-A 5 (3d ed. 1983) (one of the four areas assessed by
this instrument is one's preferred learning mode: listening, reading, iconic experience, direct ex-
perience); GARY E. PRICE ET AL., PRODUCTIVITY ENVIRONMENTAL PREFERENCE SURVEY
(1982) (PEPS) 12-14 (one of the four categories of this instrument tests for four modalities: audi-
tory, visual, tactile, and kinesthetic); M.H. SAM JACOBSON, LEARNING MODE ASSESSMENT
(1997) (simple instrument differentiates learners who absorb information visually/spacially, ver-
bally, aurally, or orally; in Appendix B of this article); JAMES W. KEEFE ET AL., LEARNING
STYLE PROFILE HANDBOOK: II. ACCOMMODATING PERCEPTUAL, STUDY, AND
INSTRUCTIONAL PREFERENCES (1989) (portion of instrument tests for three modalities: kines-
thetic, visual/spatial, and auditory/verbal); Detlev Leutner & Jan L. Plass, MeasuringLearning
Styles with QuestionnairesVersus Direct Observation of PreferentialChoice Behavior in Authentic
Learning Situations: The Visualizer/Verbalizer Behavior Observations Scale (VV-BOS), 14
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questions in Appendix B may suffice for most students to offer them
63
some insight into how they might better absorb information. With
the results of this assessment, students can develop more effective
study rituals.64
2. Information Processing Models
After learners absorb information, they process it. Learners have
habitual modes of processing information, and these modes have re-
ceived considerable discussion in the educational psychology litera-
ture. This article will discuss the most significant schemata and
evaluate what they mean for the classroom.
a. Left-Brain/Right-BrainFunctions
Any discussion of information processing must begin with how
the brain functions, specifically the left-brain and right-brain func-
tions. How learners process information depends on which hemi-
sphere of their brain they habitually rely upon for processing informa-
tion. As illustrated below, the left-brain primarily governs language
and writing, and the right-brain governs spatial construction:65
COMPUTERS HUM. BEHAV. 543, 543-57 (1998) (tests student preferences for visual or verbal
learning material).
63. You have my permission to use the copyrighted Learning Mode Assessment in Appen-
dix B for classroom or educational purposes so long as photocopies are made, the Assessment is
used at no cost, and I am identified as the author and copyright holder. For any other use, please
contact me to obtain permission. For guidance on how to interpret the results of a Learning
Mode Assessment, see M.H. Sam Jacobson, How Students Absorb Information:DeterminingMo-
dality, 8 J. LEGAL WRITING (forthcoming 2001).
64. Knowing what is the most effective way to absorb information can be empowering to
the student. For example, at the end of the first year oflaw school, one student, who was a visual
learner, told me that she had met with her Contracts professor to discuss a question she had
about the material. When the professor began to answer her question, she interrupted him and
told him that she would understand it better if he would draw her a picture rather than just talk
to her. The professor drew a simple diagram illustrating his point, which she had no trouble un-
derstanding. She said that she was struck by how easy it was to understand once she could see it.
65. KOLB, supra note 44, at 47.
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Various studies exploring the left-brain/right-brain functions in-
dicate that the left-brain processes information analytically and line-
arly, and the right-brain processes information synthetically and crea-
tively.66 The differences between the two brain functions are noted in
the following chart:
67
66. SILVERMAN & CASAZZA, supra note 43, at 44, 187-92 (discussing the results of some
of the research projects).
67. BETTY EDWARDS, DRAWING ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE BRAIN 40 (1979); KOLB,
supranote 44, at 49.
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A Comparison of Left-Mode and Right-Mode Characteristics
LMODE
Verbal: Using words to name, describe,
define.
Analytic: Figuring things out step-by-step
and part-by-part.
Symbolic: Using a symbol to stand for
something. For example, the drawn form
, stands for eye, the sign + stands for the
process of addition.
Abstract: Taking out a small bit of infor-
mation and using it to represent the whole
thing.
Temporal: Keeping track of time, se-
quencing one thing after another: Doing
first things first, second things second, etc.
Rational: Drawing on conclusions based
on reason and facts.
Digital: Using numbers as in counting.
Logical: Drawing conclusions based on
logic: one thing following another in logical
order-for example, a mathematical theo-
rem or a well-stated argument.
Linear: Thinking in terms of linked ideas,
one thought directly following another, of-
ten leading to a convergent conclusion.
a-MODE
Nonverbal: Awareness of things, but
minimal connection with words.
Synthetic: Putting things together to form
wholes.
Concrete: Relating to things as they are,
at the present moment.
Analogic: Seeing likenesses between
things, understanding metaphoric relation-
ships.
Nontemporal: Without a sense of time.
Nonrational: Not requiring a basis of rea-
son or facts; willingness to suspend judg-
ment.
Spatial: Seeing where things are in relation
to other things, and how parts go together
to form a whole.
Intuitive: Making leaps of insight, often
based on incomplete patterns, hunches,
feelings, or visual images.
Holistic: Seeing whole things all at once;
perceving the overall pattern and struc-
tures, often leading to divergent conclu-
sions.
While all learners use both parts of their brains, 68 most learners
have a dominant hemisphere that affects their style of processing in-
formation. This processing difference does not affect ability6
9 unless
68. See ROBERT ORNSTEIN, THE RIGHT MIND: MAKING SENSE OF THE HEMISPHERES
68 (1997).
69. SILVERMAN & CASAZZA, supra note 43, at 44 (citing Anita N. Kitchens et al., Left-
brain/Right-brain Theory: Implications for Developmental Math Instruction, 8 REV. RES.
DEVELOPMENTAL EDUC. 3 (1991)); Richard D. MacNeil, The Relationship of Cognitive Style
and InstructionalStyle to the LearningPerformanceof UndergraduateStudents, 73 J. EDUC. RES.
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the manner of teaching and the manner of processing are in conflict.7
"
American schools favor a left-brain approach to teaching and learn-
ing." As a result, right-brain learners are often disadvantaged.1
2
Since
many ethnic and racial minorities are right-brain learners, 73 not recog-
nizing right-brain thinking in law classrooms disadvantages them. 4
Right-brain activities would include problem-solving, communicating
with visuals, relating concepts to a personal context, handling cases,
working with practice sets, connecting parts to the whole, and physical
or verbal demonstrations. Left-brain activities would include analyz-
ing information presented in a linear manner, step-by-step activities,
outlining, multiple-choice exams, and using words to represent ab-
stract concepts. When right-brain activities are included in the class-
room, right-brain students may have an easier time mastering the ma-
terial, resulting in improved performance.75
354, 355, 357 (1980) (in study of undergraduates, instructional style had a significant effect on
learning performance but cognitive style did not).
70. SILVERMAN & CASAZZA, supranote 43, at 44. Students continually taught with mate-
rials and methods that do not match their cognitive style will have difficulty learning. Richard
Riding & David Mathias, Cognitive Styles and PreferredLearningMode, ReadingAttainment and
CognitiveAbility in 11-Year-Old Children, 11 EDUC. PSYCHOL. 383, 383-84 (1991).
71. SILVERMAN &CASAZZA, supranote 43, at 188.
72. At-risk students, poor achievers, dropouts, alternative school students, and incarcerated
learning-disabled adults often have a more well-developed right-brain. SILVERMAN &
CASAZZA, supra note 44, at 188-89. Generally, left-brain dominant students perform better
across all subjects than right-brain students. See Carolina Tinajero & M. Fernanda Paramo,
FieldDependence-Independence Cognitive Style and Academic Achievement: A Review of Research
and Theory, 13 EUR. J. PSYCHOL. EDUC. 227, 227-51 (1998). However, when right-brain stu-
dents are taught to their learning style, their achievement is significantly improved. Rita Dunn
et al., Effects of Matchingand MismatchingMinority Developmental College Students' Hemispheric
Preferences on MathematicsScores, 83 J. EDUC. REs. 283, 285, 287 (1990); William F. Geiser,
Effects of Learning-Style-Responsive Versus Traditional Study Strategies on Achievement, Study
and Attitudes of SuburbanEighth-GradeMathematics Students, 22 RES. MIDDLE LEVEL EDUC.
Q. 19,19-41 (1999).
73. ORNSTEIN, supra note 68, at 89-90 (a disproportionately large number ofright-brained
individuals are members of racial and ethnic minorities); Shirley Griggs & Rita Dunn, Hispanic-
American Students and LearningStyle, 23 EMERGENCY LIBR. 11, 14 (1997) (reviews studies indi-
cating that Hispanics are more right-brain than mainstream students); DAUNA B. BROWNE,
LEARNING STYLES AND NATIVE AMERICANS 9 (1986) (ERIC Document Reproduction Service
No. ED 297 906) (discussing the emphasis of Native American culture on right-brain cognitive
processes); Cooper, supra note 5 (1978 study of 200 Black college freshmen indicated 92% were
holistic thinkers).
74. If students are uncertain if they are right-brain or left-brain dominant, various assess-
ments exist, including the McCarthy Hemispheric Mode Indicator (HMI), BERNICE
MCCARTHY, HEMISPHERIC MODE INDICATOR: RIGHT AND LEFT-BRAIN APPROACHES TO
LEARNING (2000), or the Differential Hemispheric Activation Test, ROBERT ZENHAUSERN,
THE DIFFERENTIAL HEMISPHERIC ACTIVATION TEST (1979), availableat http://codi.buffalo.
edu/archives/pubs/article/.neuro.
75. See, e.g., Dunn et al., supranote 72, at 283-87. In a study of 700 developmental math
students in a technical college, right-brain dominant learners improved their test scores signifi-
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b. OtherInformation ProcessingModels
These left-brain/right-brain functions are consistent with the
primary learning style models for processing information. One of the
best known is Witkin's model of field dependence and field independ-
ence.76
Using his Embedded Figures Test and other methodologies,77
Witkin determined that some people were field-independent, that is,
they had articulated styles of processing, because they immediately
were able to spot a simple geometric figure embedded into a more
complex figure.78 Other people were field-dependent, that is, they had
global styles of processing, because they were distracted by the sur-
roundings of the whole and had more difficulty finding the embedded
figure.79
The articulated, field-independent style involves analyzing
and structuring incoming information, while the global, field-
dependent style accepts the totality of impressions in context but
without structure.8
" In addition, a relatively field-dependent person is
more sensitive to social cues and prefers to be physically close to oth-
ers compared to relatively field-independent persons, who tend to
have a more impersonal orientation.8
Similarly, Pask's model of holist and serialist processing reflects
left-brain/right-brain functions.82 A holistic learner is a global proces-
sor who sees the whole immediately, whose thinking may involve re-
cantly when visuals and personalized associations were used in instruction (taught holistically,
overall concept first, then details), and the left-brain dominant learners improved significantly
when instruction was delivered in a successive or sequential format. Id.
76. H.A. Witkin, The Nature and Importance of IndividualDifferencesin Perception, 18 J.
PERSONALITY 145, 145-70 (1949).
77. H.A. Witkin et al., Field-Dependent and Field-IndependentCognitive Styles and Their
EducationalImplications, 47 REV. EDUC. RES. 1, 2-6 (1977) [hereinafter Witkin (1977)] (de-
scribing methodologies); H.A. Witkin, IndividualDifferences in Ease of Perceptionof Embedded
Figures,19 J. PERSONALITY 1, 1-15 (1950).
78. Witkin (1977), supra note 77, at 7-17. Analyses and structuring are complementary
aspects of articulation. Id. at 9-10.
79. Id. at 10.
80. Id.; STEPHEN D. BROOKFIELD, UNDERSTANDING AND FACILITATING ADULT
LEARNING: A COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS OF PRINCIPLES AND EFFECTIVE PRACTICES 41-42
(1986). For a clear discussion of analytic and global processors and how to teach to them, see
Daniele D. Flannery, Global and Analytical Ways of Processing Information, in APPLYING
COGNITIVE LEARNING THEORY TO ADULT LEARNING 15-24 (Daniele D. Flannery ed.,
1993).
81. Flannery, supra note 80, at 11-14. Persons are relatively field-dependent or field-
independent because scores testing for this form a continuous distribution; therefore, these are
tendencies and not two types of people. Id. at 7. No differences in learning ability or memory
exist between field-dependent and field-independent persons, id. at 18, only differences in the
ease with which they meet the requirements of certain tasks. Id. at 16.
82. See Gordon Pask, Styles and StrategiesofLearning, 46 BRIT. J. EDUC. PSYCHOL. 128,
128-48 (1976); GORDON PASK, LEARNING STRATEGIES AND TEACHING STRATEGIES (1969).
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dundancies until the process is complete, who relies on illustration and
analogy, who has a wide focus ofattention, and who connects informa-
tion to people.8
" A serialistic learner is a linear processor whose think-
ing is logical, step-by-step, and efficient; who sees the whole later in
the process; and who works independently. 4 Pask denotes the holist-
like style as comprehension learning and the serialist-like style as op-
eration learning." Both groups reach the same level of understanding,
but in completely different ways. 6
Somewhat different models are those of sequencing. Ausubel
finds that some learners are "top down" sequencers, who process in-
formation best if they have the general concepts first as an anchor to
the facts that come later. 7 Other learners are "bottom up" sequenc-
ers, who process information best if they have the facts first from
which the general concepts follow. 8 Siegel and Siegel visualize the
processing of information on a continuum with a preference to learn
factually-oriented material first at one end of the continuum and a
preference to learn conceptually-oriented material at the other end.89
Finally, the impulsive-reflective model of processing observes the
tendency of some learners to reflect over alternative solutions before
responding and of other learners to make an impulsive selection.9
"
83. Id.
84. Id.
85. Id.
86. Nigel Ford, Styles and Strategiesof ProcessingInformation: Implicationsfor Professional
Education,3 EDUC. FOR INFO. 81, 118-19 (1985). To illustrate, holistic and serialistic proces-
sors arrive at the same result but in different paths in the following diagrams:
Holistic Strategy Serialistic Strategy
87. DAVID P. AUSUBEL, THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MEANINGFUL VERBAL LEARNING: AN
INTRODUCTION TO SCHOOL LEARNING 79-81, 214-15 (1963); David P. Ausubel, The Useof
Advance Organizers in the Learningand Retention of Meaningful Verbal Material, 51 J. EDUC.
PSYCHOL. 267, 271 (1960). Sequencing may be connected with right-brain/left-brain functions,
Riding & Mathias, supra note 71, at 387 (those who are right-brain or field-dependent have
trouble organizing without a structured introduction first), and learning mode. Id. at 384 (verbal
learners learn best if the textual description precedes the pictorial, and imagers, who are visual
learners, learn best if the illustration precedes the text).
88. Ausubel, supranote 89.
89. Claudia E. McDade, Subsumption Versus EducationalSet: Implicationsfor Sequencingof
InstructionalMaterials,70 J. EDUC. PSYCHOL. 137, 137 (1978); Laurence Siegel & Lila Corkland
Siegel, EducationalSet: A DeterminantofAcquisition, 56 J. EDUC. PSYCHOL. 1, 1-12 (1965).
90. Jerome Kagan, Reflection-Impulsivity and ReadingAbility in PrimaryGradeChildren, 36
CHILD DEV. 609, 609 (1965).
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The impulsive processor answers rapidly, but with more mistakes, and
the reflective processor answers more cautiously but more accurately.9
While intelligence tests favor those who are quick and accurate,92 some
intelligent people prefer the more cautious and analytical style.9
3 Fur-
ther, many impulsive processors may need to develop learning tools
that allow for more reflection in order to be more accurate. 94
3. Accommodating Different Styles of Information Processing
While many students may not be aware of their habitual style for
processing information,95 professors can accommodate all styles for
processing information with little difficulty. First, professors can be-
gin each segment with a structural overview of a topic to accommodate
the field-dependent/holist, who is helped by pre-structure, and the
top-to-bottom processor, who needs the structural overview before the
details will make sense.96 Additionally, professors can end each seg-
ment with a structural overview to accommodate the field-
91. Id. at 627; NATHAN KOGAN, COGNITIVE STYLES IN INFANCY AND EARLY
CHILDHOOD 31-59 (1976), discussed in ENTWISTLE, supra note 12, at 205.
92. STERNBERG, supranote 11, at 22-24.
93. Id. at 24-26.
94. Id.; Stanley B. Messer, Reflection-Impulsivity: A Review, 83 PSYCHOL. BULL. 1026,
1036-37, 1047-48 (1976).
95. Numerous assessments exist for assessing styles of processing information, including
PRICE, supra note 62. PEPS is a test for assessing how indviduals prefer to learn, concentrate,
and perform in their occupational or educational activities, not how they process information.
See also ANTHONY F. GREGORC, AN ADULT'S GUIDE TO STYLE 17-42 (1982) (Jungian-based
instrument that assesses four learner preferences: Concrete Sequential, Concrete Random, Ab-
stract Sequential, and Abstract Random); PETER HONEY & ALAN MUMFORD, LEARNING
STYLES QUESTIONNAIRE (1986) (Kolb-based instrument that determines each learner's
strengths in the four parts of the learning cycle) (the questionnaire is also included in Appendix
A); DAVID A. KOLB, LEARNING STYLE INVENTORY 5 (1981) (instrument assesses preferred
learning strengths in four areas: Concrete Experience, Reflective Observation, Abstract Concep-
tualization, and Active Experimentation); MCCARTHY, supranote 74 (instrument identifies four
types of learners: those who seek personal meaning, intellectual competence, solutions to prob-
lems, or hidden possibilities); HARVEY F. SILVER & J. ROBERT HANSON, LEARNING STYLE
INVENTORY (1980) (Jungian-based instrument identifies four learning styles: sensing-thinkers,
sensing-feelers, intuitive thinkers, intuitive feelers); GOODWIN WATSON & EDWARD M.
GLASER, WATSON-GLASER CRITICAL THINKING APPRAISAL (1980), discussed in 3 TEST
CRITIQUES 682-85 (Daniel J. Keyser & Richard C. Sweetland eds., 1985) (instrument contains
subtests: Inference, Recognition of Assumptions, Deduction, Interpretation, and Evaluation of
Arguments); and HERMAN A. WITKIN ET AL., A GROUP EMBEDDED FIGURES TEST 4 (1971)
(perceptual test to determine field-dependence/field-independence).
96. An advance organizer especially has significant effect when the learner is actively en-
gaged in sequencing the material. John Patrick & Paul Evans, Advance Organizersand Learner
Control of Sequence in Recall of TopicAttributes, 2 HUM. LEARNING 269, 275 (1983).
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dependent/holist, who may need reining in, and the bottom-to-top,
factually-oriented processor, who may get lost in the details."
Second, professors can develop logical structures that accommo-
date the field-independent/serialist but yet allow students freedom on
how they arrive at those structures to accommodate the field-
dependent/holist. For example, an essential legal analytical skill is to
reason by analogy. An outline for reasoning by analogy would include
defining the things that one wants to compare (e.g., X and Y),
comparing them, and then concluding whether they are mostly similar
or mostly dissimilar. To reason by analogy in law, the first thing that
one would define would be the law, incorporating the rule from en-
acted law and the holdings of the relevant cases, the explanation of the
rule included in the reasoning of the cases, and the factual illustration
of the rule derived from facts of the cases. The second thing that one
would define would be the facts of the legal problem. After defining
these two things, one would compare them and draw a conclusion. In-
stead of IRAC as a representation of legal reasoning,98 the acronym
becomes RAFADC ("raffaduck"): Rule (the single point you are ana-
lyzing), Authorities (cases which give support for the rule, explain the
rule, and factually illustratethe rule, in that order), Facts (from your
problem), Analogize (determine the similarities between R, A, and F),
Distinguish (determine the differences between RA and F), and Con-
clude (determine if R, A, and F are mostly similar or mostly different).
By establishing this outline for reasoning by analogy, the field-
independent/serialist benefits because the outline gives structure, is
logical, and proceeds step-by-step. The field-dependent/holistic
benefits because the outline generates a competent end product with-
out requiring that it be thought through in that order. After looking at
the whole and considering all of the possibilities, the field-
dependent/holistic can channel the information to produce effective
and focused reasoning by analogy.
Third, professors can develop course activities and assessments
that do not favor the quick over the steady to accommodate the reflec-
tive processor. Take-home exams and writing assignments may ac-
commodate the reflective processor. Conversely, multiple-choice ex-
97. McDade, supra note 89, at 137 (onan exam, conceptually-set students performed better
when concepts preceded facts and factually-set students performed better when facts preceded
concepts).
98. The traditional heuristic for reasoning by analogy is IRAC: Issue, Rule, Application,
and Conclusion. See, e.g., DIANA V. PRATT, LEGAL WRITING: A SYSTEMIC APPROACH 88,
167-75 (3d ed. 1999). This acronym is not helpful for many students because what constitutes
"application" is uncertain and because it does not model analogistic reasoning. For additional
criticisms of IRAC, see, e.g., 10 SECOND DRAFT 1, 1-20 (1995), a publication of the Legal
Writing Institute, 900 Broadway, Seattle, Washington 98122.
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ams may favor the impulsive processor. However, penalizing for in-
correct answers to multiple-choice questions may promote accuracy
over speed. The impulsive-reflective tendencies in processing may be
intensified in multiple-choice examinations because these exams en-
courage impulsive (and inaccurate) answering and may paralyze the
reflective students who feel stressed by time.99
D. Social Interaction
The fourth personal characteristic affecting learning style is so-
cial interaction. This characteristic includes students' motivations,
values, and social milieu. Motivation is used to explain the level of in-
terest in establishing and achieving goals that are consistent with stu-
dents' values.' ° Social milieu concerns the social environment in
which students learn best. Each of these contributes to learning and,
therefore, may be considered a part of learning style. However, these
may be situation specific and are more changeable than the other con-
tributions to learning style previously discussed in this article. None-
theless, they are worth discussing to the extent that they affect law
classrooms.'0 '
1. Motivation
Motivation may be either extrinsic, that is, due to some reward
or punishment outside the task itself, or intrinsic, that is, the task is
relevant and interesting to the learner in its own right."
0 2 Intrinsic mo-
99. CLAXTON & MURRELL, supranote 18, at 17.
100. For a clear and concise discussion of motivation, see ENTWISTLE, supra note 12, at
193-98; SILVERMAN & CASAZZA, supranote 43, at 92-115.
101. For students who may be unaware of their sociological preferences, several tests are
available, including CANFIELD, supranote 62 (instrument measures affective variables (personal-
ity or attitudinal values) that may affect learning); PRICE, supranote 63 (one of five categories in
this instrument tests for emotionality, including persistence, motivation, responsibility, and
structure); ANTHONY F. GRASHA ET AL., THE GRASHA-REICHMANN STUDENT LEARNING
STYLE QUESTIONNAIRE (1975) (unpublished test provided by ETS Test Collection to educators
and psychologists) (assesses six learning styles that are primarily sociological and motivational:
Independent, Dependent, Avoidant, Participant, Collaborative, and Competitive); see also
KEIRSEY & BATES, supra note 33 (MBTI-based assessment of four temperaments: Dionysian
(SPs), Epimethean (SJs), Promethean (NTs), Apollonian (NFs)) (copy on file with author);
JOSEPH S. RENZULLI & LINDA H. SMITH, LEARNING STYLES INVENTORY (1978), discussed in
2 TEST CRITIQUES 402-410 (Daniel J. Keyser & Richard C. Sweetland eds., 1985) (instrument
assesses student satisfaction with nine teaching modes: projects, drill and recitation, peer teach-
ing, discussion, teaching games, independent study, programmed instruction, lecture, and simu-
lation); WILL SCHUTZ, FUNDAMENTAL INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS ORIENTATION-
BEHAVIOR (B) AND FEELINGS (F) (1967), discussed in 1 TEST CRITIQUES 284-87 (Daniel J.
Keyser & Richard C. Sweetland eds., 1984) (instrument measures a person's needs and desires in
his or her relations with others in the areas of inclusion, control, and affection).
102. R.S. PETERS, THE CONCEPT OF MOTIVATION 38-50 (2d ed. 1960).
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tivations satisfy personal values such as self-esteem or the need for
achievement. °3
With achievement comes self-confidence, higher mo-
tivation, and further effective learning;1
0 4
with failure comes demorali-
zation, hostility to school, and feelings of personal humiliation."
0
'
When the fear of failure (anxiety) outweighs the positive interest in
achievement, the learner will avoid achievement situations.1
0 6
Where
fear of failure is dominant, success and praise are essential.0 7
Alterna-
tively, a certain amount of criticism may increase motivation for a
more confident student.' Too much success for the self-confident
student can diminish performance in the same way that too much fail-
ure can for the anxious. 1°9
Motivation involves the desire to achieve goals."0
Students may
have different goals in different contexts, each reflecting different mo-
tivations."' Goals include mastery goals, which lead to more engage-
ment in the learning process and more metacognitive strategies, and
performance goals, which involve comparisons with others and com-
petition.' Performance goals focus on memorization, while mastery
goals focus on problem solving and critical thinking."'
In addition, all goals have certain qualities that explain how the
goals affect behavior: specificity, proximity, and difficulty level." 4
Students will be more motivated to learn if their goals are specific,
rather than general; proximal, rather than distal; and within perceived
levels of ability and knowledge, rather than outside them."5
Specific
goals are those that outline in detail what one needs to accomplish." 6
Proximal goals are those that are attainable within a relatively short
103. JOHN WILSON, PHILOSOPHY AND EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH 100 (1972).
104. See GORDON W. ALLPORT, PATTERN AND GROWTH IN PERSONALITY 226-37
(1961).
105. See JOHN C. HOLT, How CHILDREN FAIL 37-69 (1964).
106. JOHN W. ATKINSON & NORMAN T. FEATHER, A THEORY OF ACHIEVEMENT
MOTIVATION 363-66 (1966).
107. See BERNARD WEINER, THEORIES OF MOTIVATION: FROM MECHANISM TO
COGNITION 199-201 (1972).
108. Id.
109. Id.
110. PAUL R. PINTRICH & DALE H. SCHUNK, MOTIVATION IN EDUCATION: THEORY,
RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS 4 (1996).
111. See id.at 5.
112. Martin L. Maehr &E.M. Anderman, Reinventing Schools for Early Adolescents, 93
ELEMENTARY SCH. J. 593, 593-610 (1993).
113. Id.
114. Dale H. Schunk, Goal Setting and Self-Evaluation:A Social Cognitive Perspectiveon
Self-Regulation, in ADVANCES IN MOTIVATION AND ACHIEVEMENT 85-113 (Martin L. Maehr
& Paul R. Pintrich eds., 1991).
115. Id.
116. Id.
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period of time and give better opportunities for feedback about per-
formance." 7 Goals within perceived levels of ability and knowledge
are those that students believe are achievable."'
In law school, students are extrinsically motivated, e.g., to com-
plete law school successfully, to pass the bar, and to practice law.
However, this does not necessarily equate to motivation to master par-
ticular material. For that, students need intrinsic motivation. " 9 Stu-
dents will be more intrinsically motivated to master the material when
they have positive achievements. To a certain degree, professors can
convey success or failure in the way that they respond to student con-
tributions to classroom discussion. However, the most significant as-
sessment of performance, the grade on the final examination, is given
after the class has ended and without feedback. Additional opportuni-
ties for assessment and feedback may increase intrinsic motivation to
achieve mastery.
In addition, classroom activities will promote intrinsic motivation
to learn when they include specific, proximal, and manageably diffi-
cult tasks. Students will be more motivated to learn when they have
specific goals, e.g., to complete specific assignments, rather than a
general goal of passing the final exam. Students will also be more mo-
tivated to learn when they have proximal goals, e.g., to complete an
assignment for next week, rather than to pass a final exam at the end
of the semester. Finally, students will be more motivated to learn
when they believe that they can accomplish a task, e.g., by working on
parts that build to a whole, such as mastering how to introduce docu-
ments into evidence, rather than beginning with a complete trial. Pro-
fessors can enhance their students' motivation if they set clear and
specific goals, make the goals sufficiently challenging but not over-
whelming, set both intermediate and semester-long goals, and provide
feedback that allows for improvement and that increases self-
confidence for achieving the end goal.
2. Social milieu
The social milieu in which learning takes place affects student
comfort; the more comfortable the learner, the more the student will
117. Id.
118. Id.
119. The most potent motivators for adult learners are internal, including self-esteem, rec-
ognition, better quality of life, greater self-confidence, and self-actualization. Malcolm S.
Knowles, Introduction: The Art and Science of HelpingAdults Learn, in MALCOLM S. KNOWLES
ET AL., ANDRAGOGY IN ACTION: APPLYING MODERN PRINCIPLES OF ADULT LEARNING 12
(1984) (citing FREDERICK HERZBERG, WORK AND THE NATURE OF MAN 72-91 (1966) and
ABRAHAM H. MASLOW, MOTIVATION AND PERSONALITY 45-50 (2d ed. 1970)).
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learn.12
1 Students learn in a variety of social situations including work-
ing alone, working in pairs, working with a group, and working with
experienced adults,121 e.g., professors and attorneys. Some students
move easily from one social situation to another, but others have dis-
tinct preferences. For example, when I ask students to work in groups
of three or four to do an assignment, not all students cotton to the
task. In some groups, the discussion begins immediately and all
members contribute. In other groups, no discussion occurs until all of
the members have individually worked through the assignment first.
In yet other groups, a combination of these occurs: some members
discuss while other members work by themselves and join the group
discussion later when they are ready to pool answers. Finally, in other
groups, the discussion begins immediately but it involves socializing,
rather than the assignment.
Since education has traditionally encouraged and rewarded stu-
dents who work alone, most law professors probably learned well in
that manner. However, education has changed and many law students
grew up in learning environments that also rewarded group work.'22
Further, many of the students who excelled in their group work are
rudderless and uncomfortable when they are expected to work alone. 12
3
Professors can easily accommodate different sociological styles of
learning by encouraging and facilitating study groups and by incorpo-
rating group work into the classroom. One easy way to incorporate
group work into the classroom would be to have students discuss hy-
120. See RUDOLPH H. Moos, THE HUMAN CONTEXT: ENVIRONMENTAL
DETERMINANTS OF BEHAVIOR 213-45 (1976).
121. RITA DUNN & KENNETH DUNN, TEACHING STUDENTS THROUGH THEIR
INDIVIDUAL LEARNING STYLES: A PRACTICAL APPROACH 12 (1978).
122. Books promoting cooperative learning first appeared in the 1970s. E.g., DAVID W.
JOHNSON & ROGER T. JOHNSON, LEARNING TOGETHER AND ALONE: COOPERATIVE,
COMPETITIVE, AND INDIVIDUALISTIC LEARNING (4th ed. 1994). A search of Amazon.com
recovered 199 books discussing "cooperative learning" and a search of "cooperative learning" of
scholarly articles on MasterLIST Premiere, a selective periodical subscription service, generated
593 articles on the topic since 1990. For additional information about the history and prevalence
of cooperative learning in elementary, secondary, and college education, see Bonnie K. Nastasi &
Douglas H. Clements, Research on Cooperative Learning: Implications for Practice, 20 SCH.
PSYCHOL. REV. 3, 110-39 (1991); COLLABORATIVE LEARNING: UNDERLYING PROCESSES
AND EFFECTIVE TECHNIQUES (Kris Bosworth & Sharon J. Hamilton eds., 1994); Robert E.
Slavin, CooperativeLearningin Middle and Secondary Schools, 69 CLEARING HOUSE 200 (1996).
123. Failure to include group activities may disproportionately affect African American,
Hispanic, and Native American students. See, e.g., Norris M. Haynes & Sara Gebreyesus, Co-
operativeLearning:A Casefor African-AmericanStudents, 21 SCH. PSYCHOL. REV. 521, 578-82
(1992) (discusses the importance of group work for African American students to thrive aca-
demically); Cajete, supra note 61, at 143-44 (Native Americans generally prefer to work in
groups); Cooper, supra note 4 (citing MANUEL RAMIREZ III & ALFREDO CASTAI&EDA,
CULTURAL DEMOCRACY, BICOGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT, AND EDUCATION (1974) (Hispanics
generally prefer to work in groups).
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potheticals in groups, rather than relying on individual students
through a quasi-Socratic method, although group assignments also can
take place outside of class. Group assignments can be simple applica-
tions of information or more complex work, and they can be graded or
non-graded, depending on your educational objectives. 1
2
4
E. InstructionalPreferences
The fifth personal characteristic affecting learning style is in-
structional preferences. This characteristic concerns the environ-
mental factors that affect students' ability to learn. These factors in-
clude sound (background noise, quiet), light (bright lights, windows),
temperature (cool, warm), design (desk and chair preferences, isolated
or with others, clean or messy), mobility (need to move around), time
(duration, time-of-day), and personal quirks (yellow pads, pen or
highlighter preferences).5 These factors are generally not within the
control of individual professors. They are controlled either by the law
school in the design of its facility or development of its policies, such
as whether to allow beverages in the library, or by the students. Since
most students enter law school with at least sixteen years of student
experience, presumably they are well aware of their likes and dislikes
when they study.
2
6
III. APPLYING LEARNING STYLES TO THE LEARNING CYCLE AND
EFFECTIVELY HELPING OUR LAW STUDENTS GROW
In addition to considering students' learning styles in their teach-
ing, professors also need to consider how to move their students to a
complete learning experience, one that will achieve a complex level of
learning and analysis, rather than the simple level of memorization.
Teaching to different learning styles, especially to different modes of
124. See Clifford S. Zimmerman, "ThinkingBeyond My Own Interpretation":Reflections on
Collaborativeand Cooperative Learning Theory in the Law School Curriculum31 ARIZ. ST. L.J.
957 (1999); KENNETH A. BRUFFEE, COLLABORATIVE LEARNING: HIGHER EDUCATION,
EDUCATION, INTERDEPENDENCE, AND THE AUTHORITY OF KNOWLEDGE (2d ed. 1999);
DAVID W. JOHNSON & ROGER T. JOHNSON, LEARNING TOGETHER AND ALONE:
COOPERATIVE, COMPETITIVE, AND INDIVIDUALISTIC LEARNING (4th ed. 1994); SPENCER
KAGAN, COOPERATIVE LEARNING (1994); BARBARA J. MILLIS & PHILIP G. COTTELL, JR.,
COOPERATIVE LEARNING FOR HIGHER EDUCATION FACULTY (1998); LYNDA A. BALOCHE,
THE COOPERATIVE CLASSROOM: EMPOWERING LEARNING (1998).
125. See, e.g., PRICE, supranote 62, at 3 (two of four categories in this instrument test for
environmental and physical preferences for learning, including sound level, lighting, tempera-
ture, design, time ofday, intake needs, and mobility needs); KEEFE, supranote 63 (assesses study
and instructional preferences including time of day, design, mobility, sound, lighting, and tem-
perature).
126. Should any student be in doubt about his or her environmental preferences, either of
the tests in note 125 would be helpful.
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absorbing information, will help law students learn. However, teach-
ing to different learning styles is not enough to move students to a
more complex level of learning. To make that move, professors need
to consider both the characteristics of the learning cycle and whether
professors are guiding their students, who generally are adult learn-
ers,127 to mastery by completing that cycle.
A. CompleteLearningExperience
A complete learning experience is one that involves all stages of
the learning cycle. The learning cycle has four stages: (1) having an
experience, (2) reviewing the experience, (3) concluding from the ex-
perience, and (4) doing something with the experience, such as plan-
ning the next steps or applying it to solve a problem. 121
Stage 1
Having an
Experience
Stage 4 Stage 2
Planning the Reviewing the
Next Steps Experience
Stage 3
Concluding from
the Experience
Each stage in the learning cycle is important and necessary. 129
First, a learner must have something to learn. Each new experience,
whether it is reading this article, participating in a discussion, or ad-
mitting expert testimony, gives a learner something to learn. For
adult learners, those experiences need to be in context and to connect
with prior experiences. 3
0 Second, a learner must reflect on the experi-
ence to determine the adequacy and relevancy of the information gath-
ered from it. Third, a learner must understand what that new experi-
127. An adult learner is a person beyond compulsory school age who is voluntarily enrolled
in a course of study to develop new skills or qualifications or to improve existing skills or
qualifications. BROOKFIELD, supranote 81, at 5.
128. PETER HONEY & ALAN MUMFORD, THE MANUAL OF LEARNING STYLES 4 (1992);
KOLB, supranote 44, at 42.
129. See HONEY & MUMFORD, supra note 128, at 3-4; KOLB, supranote 44, at 42.
130. KNOWLES ET AL., supra note 119, at 9-12. Adult learners connect new information
to prior experiences, they learn something new when they have a reason for knowing it, and they
learn what matters to their life, their immediate task, or solving a problem, not just for the sake
of learning. Id.
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ence means. This includes drawing conclusions from it and putting it
into theoretical perspective by creating an analytical framework from it
or integrating it into an existing analytical framework. Fourth, a
learner must do something with the information. Applying the infor-
mation tests the validity of the experience and determines if the
learner needs more input. This is the stage of analogies, transference,
and problem-solving.
In addition, all stages of the learning cycle are equally impor-
tant.131 Without new experiences, learners would conclude from in-
complete input, and any applications would be inadequate because
they would not have considered sufficient perspectives. Without re-
flection, learners would collect experiences without determining what
they could extract from them, would draw conclusions and create
paradigms without adequate support, and would act without an ade-
quate foundation. Without an analytical framework, learners would
collect experiences without determining what they could build from
them, would get lost in details, and would have difficulty applying or
using information because they would have no structure for analogy or
for making modifications. Without application, learners would collect
experiences without determining what they can use from them for
solving problems, whether the information absorbed is accurate, or
whether the framework constructed from the information is valid.
Finally, the stages of the learning cycle must be in balance.'32
Learning is not complete if learners are overly strong in one aspect of
the learning cycle at the expense of other aspects. To illustrate, if
learners are overly strong in having new experiences, they may become
manic, where the only value is having new experiences, not what they
might extract from them. If learners are overly strong in reflecting,
they may become paralyzed by details and unable to organize or see
the bigger picture. If learners are overly strong in concluding, they
may be concluding without adequate foundation for their conclusions
or they might be too abstract and insufficiently concrete. If learners
are overly strong in application, they might be acting without ade-
quate foundation for their plan, impatient, or interested only in quick
fixes.
131. HONEY & MUMFORD, supranote 128, at 3-4, 47-48.
132. Id.
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