Journal
JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION
Volume 94, Issue 1, Pages 57-72Publisher
AMER SOC ENGINEERING EDUCATION
DOI: 10.1002/j.2168-9830.2005.tb00829.x
Keywords
learning styles; approaches to learning; intellectual development
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Students have different levels of motivation, different attitudes about teaching and learning, and different responses to specific classroom environments and instructional practices. The more thoroughly instructors understand the differences, the better chance they have of meeting the diverse learning needs of all of their students. Three categories of diversity that have been shown to have important implications for teaching and learning are differences in students' learning styles (characteristic ways of taking in and processing information), approaches to learning (surface, deep, and strategic), and intellectual development levels (attitudes about the nature of knowledge and how it should be acquired and evaluated). This article reviews models that have been developed for each of these categories, outlines their pedagogical implications, and suggests areas for further study.
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