Learning Style And Academic Ability

Before taking the Learning Style Inventory, I always felt I was mostly a tactile learner. I would be able to learn in a visual fashion if need be, but I would rather learn and by doing and making mistakes. After taking the Learning Style Inventory, the results definitely supported my initial thoughts. My tactile preference was 14 points higher than my auditory score, but only 2 points higher than my visual. Although I believe I will always will be a stronger tactile learner, my visual learner skills have been improving throughout my college learning experience. Plus, it’s important to note that many tactile learning situations are dependent on visual learning. This means that tactilely learning has been strengthening my visual learning skills.

Whether you believe learning styles are a myth or fact they still can help you learn the material for class. Just because you take this test online and it says that you are one hundred percent auditory learner doesn’t mean you can’t learn other ways. Learning styles can help you discover more creative ways for you to remember a topic or specific details. How Amy made a poster it helped her present her topic but also helped her learn and remember her topic. By writing it down and being creative you will remember the topic a lot better. I’m not a firm believer in learning styles but I do think that they can help. I am an auditory learner so listening helps me learn although it isn’t the only way I can learn. One of the ken talks we had watched

After taking the learning styles assessment it was found that I am a visual learner most of all followed by tactile and auditory. This meaning that I like to see what I am learning, I am able to understand things and later recall what I have seen. I honestly have to say that I do not agree with these results; I say that because after reading and just knowing how I am, I believe my best type of learning is through tactile, I have been this way since elementary school. When you are a tactile person you like to learn and pick up the information best through touching and doing things, you are very hands-on. Versus someone who is a visual learner just needs to see it or read it. Some of the characteristics a tactile person has is completely me; such as I am always doing something, I like to be hands on, when I talk I move my hands sort of like I am trying to act out what I am saying, I always have my legs going or am swaying side to side, like flashcards to study with, and am always chewing gum.

I am writing this memo to share the results of my learning styles assessment, see attachments, and to discuss possible ways I can better learn knowing this information.

Conducting classroom observations are very important to the prospective teacher. Observing helps show how experienced teachers manage their classroom. For this observation it was important to notice how the classroom was arranged, how the teacher interacted with the students, the teacher’s management style, and interview the teacher.

In EDCL 5339, Understanding Self, I took the Learning Styles Inventory (LSI). The results showed that my confirmed strengths are Oppositional, Power, Competitive and Perfectionist. I do not demonstrate strong Oppositional self. I tend to keep an open mind and am willing to listen to others’ opinion. Sometimes, I feel I go along with what others want easily. In my close relationships, I am more opinionated than I am with my colleagues. I would like to develop the ability to be more analytical and ask tough questions. I think this is an important skill of a leader. As for my lower Power, Competitive and Perfectionist self, I am content with who I am in those areas. I am a team player and I work well with individuals. I would not want to change a thing. I am not interested in controlling or “one-upping” others. I enjoy working with others and celebrating their achievements, along with mine.

The results of the learning styles inventory said that I was an auditory learning, which means that I learn through listening. Being an auditory learning I would tape lectures, or listen to the news on the TV or the radio rather than sitting down and reading the paper. I find these results to be for the most part accurate, I have always thought of myself as a visual learner. I have never learned well from reading a textbook over and over, I usually have to use diagrams or photos to help me with studying, and learning new material. The study tips listed for an auditory learner are some that I do in my usual study routine such as reading my notes a few times I summarize them, and then recite them out loud. The other tips listed I have not tired

Learning styles are extremely important to understand as graduate students in that a full understanding of one’s own learning style or styles can positively impact the educational experience. As I have discovered early in my graduate career, I have multiple learning styles based on the type of class environment in which I am participating. In this essay, I will discuss my learning styles, and how I plan to utilize this knowledge in the pursuit of my graduate degree.

Personal learning styles are highly complex and unique to specific individuals. It is often difficult to pinpoint an exact learning style. Though there are different categories, we often fine tune them to our own abilities. By examining our traits and tendencies we create a clearer understanding of how we process and learn information. With careful review, I have developed a specific analysis of my learning characteristics, including an evaluation of skill levels. Based on what I have recently learned and know from experience, I have also devised a structured plan for improvement of time management and study skills.

In this essay I will be exploring the importance of learning styles and the effectiveness of them to student nurses, providing evidence from learning theories and also acknowledging David Kolb’s experiential cycle (1984). Furthermore, I will be discussing my dominant learning style, providing the advantages and disadvantages of my learning style on my learning and development, considering the various ways I can improve my learning. I will also explain my weaker learning style and express the different ways I can improve it, in making it an effective learning style for me to improve the quality of my learning.

Learning is obtaining skills through knowledge, study, or by teaching. Learning styles refers to a system of collecting, processing, interpreting, arranging and thinking about information. Learning takes place in different forms like Read & Write comprehends through reading and writing by taking notes, Aural listens to information by hearing and speaking, Visual learns through visualizing of objects to understand, Kinesthetic is hands on learning experience, and Multimodal is study via several diverse modes of learning.

According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, “learning is the activity or process of gaining knowledge or skill by studying, practicing, being taught, or experiencing something.” Referring to the textbook, Life-Span Human Development, 7th edition, by Carol Sigelman, on page 244, “memory is our ability to store and later retrieve information about past events, develops and changes over the life span.” In this essay, I will be discussing how learning styles are implemented in our memory to help us later recognize information that we had processed through specific styles of learning. Through different online tests that I have recently taken, I will explain how different learning styles such as visual, auditory, and tactile learning can help improve a person’s way of remembering subjects, also defined as memory.

As Benjamin Franklin once said, “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” Throughout the years many have studied how people learn. Knowing this, there are different types of learning. There are three types of learning styles, Visual, Aural and Kinesthetic according to The Twin Cycle Experimental Learning Model: Reconceptulizing Kolb’s Theory. (Avery, Gayle and Bergstiener, Herald. 2014). The observations done in the articles have proved the theory of multiple learning styles is to be true. Learning styles of students is very prominent and obviously an issue when combined with a large class size. Different learning styles have always impacted our lives although it may be more relevant due to test scores and lecture studies. Whereas in the article Teaching Very Large Classes, professors give their own opinions on the struggle of attending to the needs of very large class sizes. People don’t use the different learning styles, Visual, Kinesthetic and Auditory, to their advantage.

There are several factors that impact an individual’s ability to learn with none more important than that particular individual’s personal learning style. Throughout the years there have been numerous theories developed regarding individual learning styles with just as many learning style assessments available for the individual to ascertain just how he or she learns best. The writing will focus on the Dunn and Dunn Learning Style Assessment. According to Bastable (2014), Dunn and Dunn set out to develop a model that would assist educators identifying characteristics that allow individuals to learn in different ways. At the end of their research, Dunn and Dunn had created a model that focused on five basic stimuli that affect

some students do not prefer this method . Biggs’ description of deep learning style is