Multi Modal Learning Style Analysis

Our first step to identify the individual learning style of the learners’ (ergo to identify their needs), is performing ‘VAK’ (visual, aural, kinaesthetic) assessment. Francis and Gould (2013) describe it as a model of

After completing the VARK questionnaire this author feels that the results were pretty accurate. She feels that she learns best when applying areas of study to real life experience and to personal experiences. She also finds herself writing many things down, high lighting, and drawing out things when trying to remember something. This author took another survey on another website to see what the preferred learning style showed. After completion it showed this author is a visual and tactile/kinesthetic learner, which matched the VARK results.

“Just as students have different personalities, they also have different ways of learing (Slavin, 107).” Learning styles are another important factor to incorporate when implementing the best learning environment. Learning styles are defined as an individual's mode of gaining knowledge. The most common learning styles addressed are auditory, visual, and kinesthetic. Auditory leaners understand information through hearing. Visual learners need more visual aids in the learning process, such as diagrams, webs, or pictures. Kinesthetic learners learn better by using manipulatives or by being physically involved in the learning process. Learning styles is a piece of the “backbone” of differentiated learning. Both are used to individualize instruction to help students achieve the most success.

The VARK learning style is an acronym that simply stands for visual, aural, read/write, and kinesthetic sensory modalities that are used for learning information (The VARK Modailities). This method is actually one of the most frequently used tools to determine how an individual learns information. Helping students, adults or children, recognize what their weaknesses and strengths are when it comes to learning and retaining new information and how to learn more efficiently. It is also most effective for the educators to realize that each individual learns differently and by using VARK these educators are able to apply the best strategies into their students syllabus.

For so many years, I thought I was a visual learner. Once I read the different learning styles and took the Learning Styles Characteristics Quiz, I learned that I am a Tactical/Kinesthetic learner. Tactical/Kinesthetic learners learn through touch, movement and space, get restless during long lectures, tend to collect things,

VARK Survey Results VARK is a website that helps its users understand their learning styles and ways to improve on the way they learn. VARK discovers the user’s learning strengths through a survey of questions relating to situations where these strengths would be used. After I completed the VARK survey my results turned out to be multimodal, and I agree with the results. This means that out of the various categories I could have been assigned, the survey revealed that I learn better from two types of strategies combined. These two learning strategies consist of Aural strategies and kinetic strategies. The Aural strategies are methods that suggest that I learn better from listening, discussing, talking, questioning, and recalling the information

The first question I asked was about what learning style everyone preferred the most. With the results, I got an equal amount of being a visual learner and a kinesthetic learner. The second question I asked was about why they preferred that learning style the most. The results showed that

After taking the Vark questionaire I learned that I have a multimodal learning preference. I like when people explain things to me. I also rather see a visual or do things myself. I learn best by having someone explain things to me. For the aural section of the questionaire I

Learning Style Reflection After completing the questionnaire, it was determined that I am a strong kinesthetic learner. The results are not that surprising to me because I know that I learn the best by using examples to guide me and to use trial and error on certain problems. For example, in organic chemistry, I would use trial and error for the synthesis problems and I would heavily follow examples in class for drawing out mechanisms. Following given examples allow me to methodize how to do every type of problem using the examples. This strategy of methodizing helped me immensely in drawing out complicated reaction mechanisms. Instead of memorizing exactly what happens in each type of reaction, I simply looked at a few examples and noticed

Interestingly I am surprised by my findings. I discovered my dominant learning style is visual. Definitely, if I had to guess I would have chosen auditory or secondly kinesthetic. I can imagine everyone’s guess would be kinesthetic. Because of course, who doesn’t learn by doing? When pondering how the brain retains information to memory would seem to be by experiencing the activity. Consequently, all information that we can retain in this world isn’t always can be learned by being active in the subject matter. Actually, my score was very low in kinesthetic. I’ve always thought my auditory would have been higher because I was alway good at remembering phone numbers or number sequences just by hearing them. It is beneficial for me to know that

After taking the VARK Test, I was assessed as having an aural learning style overall, and somewhat of a visual style as well. With the Myers-Brigg Test, I was On the Multiple Intelligence Survey my three highest scores were in Verbal/Linguistic, Musical/Rhythmic, and Bodily/Kinesthetic. I was not surprised by any

You sit in a classroom or perhaps throughout a lecture and think “I don’t understand this” that may not be your fault. From the moment we are born, we begin learning and start molding our diverse characteristics and persona, who is to say everyone has a similar manner of learning. VARK, meaning visual, aural, read or write and kinesthetic are four methods of learning preferences used by all. This is especially beneficial as it assists us to understand someone better and target their specific learning needs. After taking the VARK learning assessment online, it assessed me as having a multimodal learning preference indicating, I learn using more than one learning preference. My kinesthetic score is twelve, read or write is thirteen with visual

Learning style is the unique mode of achieving knowledge or skill through experiences or trainings. Learning style addresses the method to learning and the manner that individual learns greatest and to the characteristic method of persons interacting with the environment. Learning style lists aim to identify a student 's preferred academic approach in adapting and processing knowledge. The learning style denotes to the special mode in which the learners absorbs, processes, follows and recollects knowledge. Identifying the learners as auditory, visual, or kinesthetic learners and supporting our complete curriculum with these learning styles will prove to be beneficial for whole classroom. Using a mixture of learning activities, in

Kinesthetic Learning The Vark Questionnaire How Do I Learn Best? Version 7.1, is a useful tool in helping to identify what kind of a learner a student is and the study strategies that apply to a certain learning preference. Kinesthetic

All modern societies will agree on new modes for teaching skills and for knowledge acquiring. According to comprehensive understanding of teaching and learning, it has to involve in all the cognitive and analytical functions of the human brain. VARK similarly a method which tries to cover all human brain’s capabilities, like, Visual, Aural, Read/Write, and Kinesthetic capacities of the brain. Neil Fleming in 1987 introduced this model of learning and teaching, specifically for the field of Science and it is being used in the world ever since as a standard mode (Fleming, 2011). The use of this model really helped in getting valuable results and is easy to evaluate the effect of the system. Mutimodal is a powerful means of understanding things. The result of my research is as following: Visual 4, Aural 10, Read/ Write 11, Kinesthetic 9. This result shows that I am a person with multimodal preference. The preferable learning technique for me is Read/ Write: yet, with eagerness, I anticipate to search more learning skills