Quiz: “Do you believe in Neuromyths?” (Appendix 1)

Neuromyth No 1: Learning Styles

People learn better when they obtain information in accordance with their preferred learning style.

• True

• False

Neuromyth No 1: Learning Styles

 

Educators must diagnose their students’ learning styles and take them into account in instruction.

• True

• False

Neuromyth No 1: Learning Styles

Learners differ in the mode in which they prefer to receive information (e.g. visually or verbally)

• True

• False

Neuromyth No 1: Learning Styles

If a student feels that they learn best by writing the content down in their own words, this is because they then see what they have written down

• True

• False

2^nd Neuromyth: Blocked learning is better than interleaved

That instructional designs in which the learning content is systematically structured facilitate positive learning effects among students.

• True

• False

2^nd Neuromyth: Blocked learning is better than interleaved

Students become overwhelmed when instructional topics are not taught one after another in a structured, sequential way.

 

 

• True

• False

2^nd Neuromyth: Blocked learning is better than interleaved

Students’ knowledge acquisition is more sustainable when the learning process is simplified

 

• True

• False

2^nd Neuromyth: Blocked learning is better than interleaved

Educators should follow the structure of school textbooks and teach topics one after another chronologically in order to avoid students’ misconceptions in their teaching topic.

 

• True

• False

2^nd Neuromyth: Blocked learning is better than interleaved 

Quick and easy success during learning improves students’ long-term retention of the learning content.

• True

• False

3d neuromyth: Learning differences due to hemispheric use

 

One brain hemisphere is more strongly involved in certain cognitive processes than the other (hemispheric dominance)

• True

• False