Student Learning Identities: Developing a Learning Taxonomy for the Political Science Classroom

Learning in the Geoscience Classroom: Q-Methodology, Learning Styles, and Individual Preferences

“…Two recent studies used Q-method to analyze learning styles. Driver et al (2008) used Q-method to discover learning identities in an undergraduate political science course. The authors used 41 statements and discovered five learning identities.…”

How (and What) Political Theorists Teach: Results of a National Survey

“…Differentiated instruction is the practice of tailoring teaching to individual students, based on their varying learning styles, levels of background knowledge, and degrees of interest. Primary and secondary education long ago adopted differentiated instruction, and there has been some discussion of it in the political science literature, such as work on student learning styles (Brock and Cameron 1999;Driver et al 2008;Fox and Ronkowski 1997). The most comprehensive research within political science so far has been Ernst and Ernst's 2005 article both reviewing previous research and reporting the successful results of a case study.…”

Marriage of convenience, love at first sight? A brief manual for teaching international relations in Brazil and beyond

“…Here we would like to insert a brief note about multiple intelligence theory (MIT) 6 , learning styles 7 and multimodal teaching and learning. Despite controversies 8 , the literature has discussed the utility of such perspectives in the PS & IR classroom (Driver et al 2008;Ulbig 2016). For more experienced professors, it is crucial to constantly self-evaluate and reevaluate one's practices on different levels (Bain 2004), as it might be easy to become accommodated with certain methods and techniques over the years, which may not necessarily work with all classes or even generations.…”