Do students really learn better when taught in their preferred learning style?

The idea that tailoring teaching to learning styles improves outcomes has been thoroughly discredited, yet it continues to dominate classrooms and teacher training worldwide.

So much so, I - and tens of thousands of teachers used to have - to record learning styles on our lesson plans!

Why learning styles remain popular

This new research, Learning Styles, Preferences, or Strategies? (Hattie & O’Leary, 2025), evaluates 17 meta-analyses (n = 105,024) and