Riener and Willingham cite the recent meta-analysis of relevant research by Pashler, McDaniel, Rohrer, and Bjork in Psychological Science in the Public Interest that found no evidence of the so-called matching hypothesis, the idea that matching one’s teaching style to one’s students’ learning styles improves learning. They note that the matching hypothesis hasn’t been subjected to a lot of very rigorous research, but what research has been conducted has failed to turn up evidence for the hypothesis. There’s some controversy over this finding, but I think that it’s a reasonably solid one, particularly given what Linda shared at her keynote