Plain English Meaning

Linda Silverman is one of the two researchers who created a well-known test that helps figure out how a person prefers to learn — for example, whether they learn better by seeing pictures or by hearing words, by trying things out or by thinking them through.

Full Definition

Linda Silverman is an educational psychologist who, together with Richard Felder, developed the Index of Learning Styles (ILS) in 1988. The ILS is a questionnaire that classifies a learner's preferred way of taking in and processing information across four pairs of styles: sensing/intuitive, visual/verbal, active/reflective, and sequential/global. Her work is referenced in the Aviation Instructor's Handbook as one of the recognized frameworks instructors can use to identify how individual students learn best.

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Seen in the Aviation Instructor’s Handbook of the Index of Learning Styles and how instructors can to different students.