Multi Modal Learning Style Analysis

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

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

“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.

Basically, each of us has a different learning styles and they can practice it in difference ways. There are three types of learner that is auditory, visual and kinesthetic learner. Also, there are lots of people are the combination of two of them. If you do not know which one is you, you can go to google and type “Learning Styles” and then click in the website “educationplaner.org” and answer the quiz to find out who you are.

Kinesthetic learners are learners who learn by doing a task or some sort of direct involvement. They are often fidgety or find multiple reasons for movement and are not very attentive during audio or visual presentations. They like to try out new things, constantly be doing something or making gestures while speaking. Kinesthetic learners are often poor listeners, find success in physical activities and learn better when being able to move during learning. Concentration is greater achieved if movement can be incorporated into

The last learning style that VARK offers is read/write learning style. You prefer to write things down and receive handouts on new material. The library is a preferred area of study, and choice when gathering information on a topic.

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.

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

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

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.

When it comes to school and studying, I am definitely more aural than visual. I learn best by recording myself reading my chapters and notes aloud and then listening to it while I am driving or working out. The more I hear it, the more I remember it, kind of like lyrics to a song.

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

Evaluation of my learning style - Assessing oneself and knowing what you are as a professional and individual can help in developing your skills in the precise direction and in a more effective manner. After assessing myself as a learner – I realised that I’m more of an auditory learner than visual and my strength lies in learning by hearing and listening as this keeps me active and focussed during the learning process. This helps me in retaining information for a longer duration and I’m able to use information more effectively. MBTI suggests that these types of learners should read information aloud to themselves to grasp it more effectively; this technique certainly helps as reading aloud makes me re-iterate information

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

As a kinesthetic learner the student must understand the particular learning styles that assist best in retaining information. They will soon gravitate towards those styles naturally. The student will also learn that they must use more than one style in order to comprehend large amounts of information.