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Learning Style Survey

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The experience we have of a course determines the amount of information we get out of it. While many of us have had a bad experience in a course, we may have just chalked it up to the material being too difficult; while that may have been the reason, the more likely reason is that your learning style did not match the teaching style of your professor. We all learn and think in different ways and my experience a vast difference in learning and teaching style can ruin the experience you have in a course. After taking a learning style survey and seeing somewhat different results than what I had expected to see, I had to take a step back and reevaluate the way I thought I learned.
One of the biggest surprises of the survey came in the form of a mild active learner ranking. I have always considered myself a very active learner so seeing this was a bit of a surprise. …show more content…

When learning a subject, I greatly prefer to have a solid understanding of that topic before moving on. I find that if I am not comfortable with a subject and move on to the next, I can become more and more confused. This is particularly the case in courses that are heavily dependent on mathematics because in mathematics each topic tends to build on the one before it and without a strong foundation advancing to the next level becomes more challenging. The final ranking of the survey was a score of moderate sensing learner. I greatly prefer to learn facts and extremely dislike problems which require a different process than what is given in class and used in the examples. I also find learning easier when the topic can be directly applied to real life so I can visualize it. While I did score myself as mild in this category, I believe I was wrong in giving myself that score. After looking into what it means to be a sensing learner, I think that moderate is a much more appropriate

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