Multi Modal Learning Style Analysis

Fleming (2005) stated that people can be grouped into four styles of learning: (Gravells, 2012), Visual, Aural, Read / Write and Kinaesthetic (VARK), with Honey and Mumford (1992) suggesting that learners are a...

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 scored a 12. I scored a 9 in the Visual and kinesthetic

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, enjoy feeling, discovery and action, like to move around, enjoy working with tools, and learn the best through hands-on approach. Some of the learning strategies for this learning style are, sitting in a comfortable chair, study while listening to music, squeezing a stress ball instead of fidgeting, color grounding, try to hear words in their head, and when learning new information, makes flash cards to help process the information. Tactical/Kinesthetic learner’s strengths are that they enjoy using tools or lesions that involve active participation, have good memory, and have good motor communication. Amongst the three learning styles in this activity, Tactical/Kinesthetic learning appears to be the most hands on learning style.

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.

The VARK learning preference tool provides individuals with information that they can utilize to enhance their learning process by helping them to study more effectively and efficiently. The VARK tool consists of a questionnaire that the learner takes to identify which senses the individual uses to capture and process information, and serves as a guide to assist the individual to improve their learning by providing a summary of their preferred learning style. The VARK questionnaire contains 16 questions that identify four sensory

“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.

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

From the time of birth, individuals are constantly learning. Individual learning styles vary from person to person. It is essential to the education of the individual to learn the particular style of learning that best serves them. One particular analysis tool is the visual, aural, read/write, kinesthetic or V.A.R.K. tool (VARK, 2011). This tool allows the individual to identify their particular learning style which will better prepare them throughout their education.

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

Have you ever wondered why different people comprehend different things or why we all learn at different paces or speeds? Multiple studies have shown us that there is a science in determining how we all learn and that there is a way to test for what way best describes our individual learning style. In determining the best way that people learn can also help us to figure out the best way to teach them. The questionnaire designed to assist in this determination is called the Visual, Aural, Read/Write, and Kinesthetic or the VARK assessment. When you take the assessment, you may notice that you have a personal preference for one type of learning however the assessment may determine that you learn best from another. You can also be referred to

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 people liked to be hands-on and liked to see what was happening and how something should have been done.

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

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 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

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