This book describes models to coordinate student characteristics with educational environments, and describes how teachers can be trained to provide such environments. It is divided into five chapters. Chapter I discusses general characteristics of matching models, objectives, characteristics of the person, characteristics of the environment, and…

Teachers use a variety of teaching strategies or models so that a range of educational environments will be available to meet the variety of student needs. A model for matching these teaching strategies to students in terms of their learning style is described and its construct validity is discussed. Principles of matching according to variation…