T HE CASE FOR matching learning and teaching styles grows stronger every year. In the early seventies, it was verified that students could identify their own styles accurately (Domino 1970; Farr 1971) and, since then, many researchers have evidenced that both achievement and attitudes toward school improve significantly when instructional methods or resources complement the way individuals learn (Cafferty 1980; Carbo 1980; Copenhaver 1979; Douglass 1979; Krimsky 1981; Lynch 1981; Pizzo 1981; Trautman 1979; White 1981). Although learning style has been defined differently by various researchers (Dunn, et a/. 1981), it has been limited to selected environmental, emotional, sociological, physical, and psychological elements. Recently, a new element-hemispheric preferencewas proposed based on the differential efficiency of the two hemispheres (Zenhausern 1980). A Right-preferenced person appears to be more efficient at those tasks for which the right hemisphere is specialized; that individual would tend to think pictures and would prefer deductive reasoning. A Left-preferenced person should be more efficient at left-hemisphere specializations, would tend to think words, and would prefer inductive reasoning. Verification of that model has been found in the area of thinking style (Zenhausern and Repetti 1979), memory (Zenhausern and Gebhardt 1979), brain processing (Coleman and Zenhausern 1979) and maze learning (Zenhausern and Nickel 1979). There are many indications that hemispheric preference is an important learning style element. For example, a Right-preferenced teacher would tend to teach deductively-which would be backwards for Left-preferenced students; conversely, a Left-preferenced teacher would tend to teach inductively-the exact opposite way of making sense to Right-preferenced students. To determine whether relationships actually exist between selected elements of learning style and hemispheric preference, a study was conducted to compare the identified learning style characteristics of 353 high school students and their Left/Right dispositions. Subjects