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“Personality and Cognitive Learning Styles of Academically Talented Students.” Johns Hopkins
University Center for Talented Youth.
http://cty.jhu.edu/research/topical2.html
. Accessed:
December 19, 2002.
Silver, Harvey F., Richard W. Strong, and Matthew J. Perini. 2000. So Each May Learn:
Integrating Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligences. Alexandria, VA: Association for
Supervision and Curriculum Development.
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I would like to thank Larry Bartels, Tali Mendelberg, Bryan Shelly, and two anonymous
reviewers for helpful comments. I would also like to thank Deans Trussell and Templeton, and
Terri Harris Reed, all of the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, for encouraging
innovative teaching ideas.
2
Student evaluations of the “contribution of this course to increasing your interest in the subject
matter” and “overall quality of the course” were much higher with the Multiple Methods
approach. Several students also sent unsolicited praise of teaching paradigm via email.
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The above list is by no means exhaustive.
4
Several other researchers, most notably Brock and Cameron (1999) and Fox and Ronkowski
(1997) have discussed the ways in which Kolb’s Learning Preference model can be integrated
into the (qualitative) political science classroom. I do not disagree with their analysis. However,
since the main tenants of Kolb’s model can be found within the intersection of Gardner’s theory
and applications of MBTI, it seems that either is an apropos choice.
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Gardner later added an eighth intelligence: Naturalist. Because this intelligence is regarded as
less common, particularly in the political methodology classroom, it will not be discussed.
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Silver, Strong, and Perini (2000) have a chart that is somewhat similar, but focuses on how
students of multiple intelligences learn at the elementary school level; I designed this application
specifically for collegiate quantitative political analysis courses.
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See for example MathMatters 2000.
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From Myers-Briggs (1995); also in Silver, Strong, and Perini (2000) and Bayne (1995).
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