4MAT Field Research on Student Learning Preferences

Many Educational Organizations throughout the world now recognize the importace of accounting for Student Learning Differncess when designing and deveoloping hiqh quality learning experiences. 

About Learning offers training and online assessment tool for helping educational organizations analyze and assess these differences. But our ultimate goal is to help people design teaching and learning that accounts for these differences.

Our mission is to empower teachers to design instruction that accounts for the different ways people learn. 

Here is research from two organizations who have used these tools with great success—Long Beach City College, in Long Beach, CA and Moanalua High School in Honolulu, HI.  These student samples represent a group of over 4,000 students. 

Here are some of the key instructional design steps in the 4-Part 4MAT Design Process. Our model uses four quadrants of learning to move students through a full learning experience. It begins by Engaging Students to Informing Students to Coaching Students, to encouraging students to adapt learning into their lives.

A Key question to consider?

If only 12-21% of Students prefer learning through traditional lectures and or information delivery, what will it take to reframe instruction to account for a fuller range of student learning approaches?

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