Learning Styles and End-User Training: An Unwarranted Leap of Faith

An argument against the findings of an article by Bostrom, et al. - which stated that a consistent pattern of findings indicates that learning mode is an important predictor of learning performance, and which suggested in the design of training it is essential to match training methods to individual difference variables - is presented. The argument states that the results of the Bostrom, et al. research should be discounted because the measures of learning styles were derived from an instrument with very poor psychometric properties.