Learning Styles

 

 

Introduction to Learning Styles

The VARK Questionnaire Results:

Your scores were:

·         Visual: 5

·         Aural:2

·         Read\Write:3

·         Kinesthetic: 9

Active:

·         Retain and understand information best by discussing it, applying it or explaining it to others

·         Prefer group work

·         Finds it difficult to sit in class just taking notes; requires interaction

Reflective:

·         Retain and understand information best by thinking about it first

·         Prefer working alone

·         Needs thinking time during lectures

Sensing:

·         Like clear guidelines & directions

·         Like a routine

·         Prefer practical work

Intuitive:

·         Prefer discovering possibilities and relationship

·          Like innovation and dislike repetition

·         Tend to work faster and are more innovative but may be careless

·         Do not like courses that involve a lot of memorisation and routine calculations

Visual:

·         Visual learners remember best what they see pictures, diagrams, flow charts and demonstrations.

·         Verbal learners get more out of words written and spoken explanations

·         Prefer to color-code your notes by topic, concept, or idea

·         Draw arrows to connect or associate supporting or like concepts or ideas

Verbal:

• Visual learners learn most thoroughly and efficiently, when material is presented to them using diagrams
• They only highlight 10% of the textbook, including the main points.
• Rewrite your notes, and outline the chapters in the textbook.
  
  
• Recite the subject matter, or write scripts and debates, and then act them out.

Global:

·         Learns by discussion and cooperates in group efforts

·          Does several things at once and may skip steps/details

·          Sees the big picture and relationships between ideas

·          Reads between the lines and sees many options

·         Works hard to please and tries to avoid conflict

·         Goes with the flow and is generally flexible

·         Tends to avoid individual competition

My Preferred learning style:

My preferred learning style is kinesthetic; this means I learn best by doing tasks or being productive rather than listening to a teacher talk for a long period of time.

http://www.vark-learn.com/english/page.asp?p=questionnaire

Knowing my learning style will help me a lot through my own personal development, this is because I can adjust the way in which I revise to get the best possible results.