Learning and Teaching Styles in Engineering Education.

When Linda Silverman and I wrote this paper in 1987, our goal was to offer some insights about teaching and learning based on Dr. Silverman’s expertise in educational psychology and my experience in engineering education that would be helpful to some of my fellow engineering professors. When the paper was published early in 1988, the response was astonishing. Almost immediately, reprint requests flooded in from all over the world. The paper started to be cited in the engineering education literature, then in the general science education literature; it was the first article cited in the premier issue of ERIC’s National Teaching and Learning Forum; and it was the most frequently cited paper in articles published in the Journal of Engineering Education over a 10-year period. A self-scoring web-based instrument called the Index of Learning Styles that assesses preferences on four scales of the learning style model developed in the paper currently gets about 100,000 hits a year and has been translated into half a dozen languages that I know about and probably more that I don’t, even though it has not yet been validated. The 1988 paper is still cited more than any other paper I have written, including more recent papers on learning styles.

当我和琳达·西尔弗曼（Linda Silverman）在1987年撰写本文时，我们的目标是根据西尔弗曼（Silverman）博士在教育心理学方面的专业知识以及我在工程教育方面的经验提供一些有关教学的见解，这对我的一些工程教授有帮助该论文在1988年初发表，几乎立即发表了反应，重印了世界各地的要求。工程教育文献，然后在一般科学教育文献中； - 年度时期。目前，每年大约获得100,000次命中，并且已被翻译成我知道的六种语言，即使尚未被验证，我也可能没有。我写的论文，包括有关学习风格的最新论文。