Labeling children as visual versus hands-on learners biases adults' and children's judgments of intelligence and subject expectations¶
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q2 i? Across three studies, parents, teachers, and children judged children described as visual learners as more intelligent than children described as hands-on learners, and expected them to excel in core subjects. → John Hattie 2025
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John Hattie 2025¶
John Hattie, Timothy O'Leary. (2025). Learning Styles, Preferences, or Strategies? An Explanation for the Resurgence of Styles Across Many Meta-analyses. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-025-10002-w
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The review reports, citing Sun et al. (2023), three studies showing labeling effects: visual learners were judged more intelligent than hands-on learners and expected to excel in mathematics, language arts, and social sciences. No effect size is printed.
"Sun et al. (2023) conducted three studies that showed that "parents, teachers, and children judged children described as visual learners as more intelligent than children described as hands-on learners" (p. 46)."
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Related Claims¶
- Parental aspiration/expectation for children's educational achievement has the strongest relationship with academic achievement among involvement components — related
- Praise for intelligence, rather than for effort, after success undermines children's motivation and performance after a later failure — related
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Labeling children as visual versus hands-on learners biases adults' and children's judgments of intelligence and subject expectations |
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Labeling children as visual versus hands-on learners biases adults' and children's judgments of intelligence and subject expectations |
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