Personal Narrative: My Learning Style Inventory

Since starting school at the University of Memphis, I have begun to learn who I am as a person. In my Academic Strategies class on Tuesdays and Thursdays, I have learned about my strengths as an undergraduate student, areas that I would like to improve, and my preferred learning style. Mr. Bailey gave me an assignment called the “Learning Style Inventory” where it indicates your strongest points and the sections that need refining. After completing LS1-8 on the Learning Style Graph my strengths for my preferred learning mode blue is planning, creating models, defining problems, and developing problems. I can become a more balanced learner through all four modes if I practice characteristics of each one. For example,

After completion of the test on myself I have discovered that I have a learning style of Logical – Mathematical, with a majority score of 37, closely followed by Interpersonal with a score of 32, (see Appendix 1).

This inventory is designed to help you discover your learning modality. Each person has a way s/he prefers to take in information. Knowing your preferences will help you know your strengths in a learning situation.Please answer each question with your first, gut-level response. Answer according to what you do now, not how you think people perceive you or what you think the answer should be. Use the following scale to answer each question. Circle your answer. 1 = NEVER 2 = RARELY 3 = OCCASIONALLY 4 = USUALLY 5 = ALWAYS|

The test, Learning Styles Inventory, was created by David Kolb in 1984. This test tells you how you best learn things. There's three results that you can end up with, Auditory, Tactile, and Visual. If you were a visual learner, you'd learn better by seeing and watching how things are done, or practicing with flashcards and such. If you were an Auditory learner, you'd learn better by hearing directions or what to do. It is also helpful if you make a song on what you want to learn. If you were a Tactile learner, then you learn better hands-on.Touching things, tracing letters to a word with your finger, or even holding or squeezing something while you study might help. You would take this test to see how you could study best, or maybe you can't

After completing the assessment, the inventory concludes that my learning style is predominantly feeling and concrete experiences. For concrete experience, my score of 43 reveals my passion to learn information that I believe is relevant for myself. Subsequently, scoring 34 for active experimentation indicates my preference for applying and testing ideas to understand a concept. Additionally, scoring 25 for reflective observation reveals how I learn concepts through observing others complete a task. Scoring 18 for abstract conceptualization indicates how my learning style does not depend on facts and figure. With all of these learning styles, my graph illustrates strong areas in mode 4 and 1, however, it is immensely low in mode 2 and 1. Overall, my results showcase that I belong in mode 4 learning. The learning style inventory is accurate as it reveals that my strongest learning style is concrete experience. This

The learning style I identified with is read/write. I basically learn things better by reading and writing things down. As you read and write things down it makes it easier for me to remember things better. If I continuously re-read things, I would remember them for a long time. And if I re-write things I’d be ably to remember it for a long time as well. Because I remember better if I read I always keep a highlighter near by because if I highlight something I know it’ll be important and it will make it easier for studying for test. Not only that, because I use different colored highlighters it makes me remember things more also. Yes, I did know that this was my preferred learning style before completing this assessment because,

Based on my personal inventory evaluation check list I have a combination of learning styles. I am a visual and kinesthetic learner. I definitely learn best when I am taught new information with some type of picture or visual. Also, having the hands on experience I feel helps me to retain information better. I tend to watch a lot of educational videos online because I feel it helps me to process the information and prepare for exams better. During exams I try visualize the

After taking the learning styles and study strategies quiz, I received the results of 50% tactile, 25% Auditory, and 25% visual learner. I would strongly agree with these results because I am a

In the learning styles test, it resulted that I am a visual learner. I believe that this is true because I would rather to see a demonstration of what I am supposed to do so I can be able to do it by myself later on. It is effective for me when I am studying because I can remember what I saw as opposed to what I heard. Also, I get distracted easily therefore if a class session tends to be long and only involves discussions and talking, I tend to space out a lot. The results says that visual learners should always be sure to look at the study materials and make use of flash cards, which I tend to do all the time. In the value assessment section, I did the Rokeach Value Survey and this was a great one. It helped to prioritize terminal and instrumental

The fifth student learning objective assures that we will be able to function well in a multi- disciplinary team. I took Engineering 100 course in my past where I was required to work in a group of students of different majors. Our group had to design and build a hovercraft for the entire semester and the hovercraft project was divided into several parts which was excessively affective to perform the goal of our project. However, our team was able to help each other out when it came to the different aspects of designing the hovercraft by having a multi-disciplinary team. For instance, we were able to rely on the computer science teammate for the programming of the hovercraft while my team was able to rely on me when it came to the financial

•My top-scoring learning style preference was read/write at 15 and my low-scoring learning style preference was aura with a 2.

Although, I may lean more toward one method than another I feel as if I am pretty flexible. One thing about addressing learning preferences is, keeping it in mind allows teachers to address the diversity of their students (Wilson, 2012). I often use technology in the classroom since today’s students love technology. My students are allowed to come to the Activboard and participate in lessons. This helps those students that are visual and tactile learners. I also talk a lot trying to help students make connections. I’ve been told I talk too much. One thing I will be sure of from what I learned in the lesson this week is making sure to help students make connections and limiting the information I give them (Sousa,

I don’t remember a clearly specific time time of learning something difficult. But I’m sure I have had such time. Normally if I have trouble learning something, I would try to evaluate myself to see what make it hard for me to learn it. Asking myself questions such as, do I have sufficient knowledges or skills to learn it but, not yet tried hard enough?, or am I missing something else that prevent me from learning?. If so, I will try harder or set a smaller, easier goals as stepping stones.

My learning style is being a visual learner. First, a visual learner is someone who has to see what they're learning in order to understand the material taught. When learning, I prefer to use graphs, charts, diagrams, pictures, videos, and other things instead of listening to a teacher talk. When I study notes for a quiz I always end up highlighting most of the text. Being a visual learner impacts others and I in different ways. First, studies show that classrooms are needing more visual aid type teaching lessons because so many children learn visually, but aren't getting the help they need. If more teachers taught with pictures, examples, diagrams ,etc, then there would be a huge rise in test scores. Students including myself can study better and increase our vocabulary by being taught in an environment that matches our learning type.

A) I expected to get artistic, creative and investigative as my results on surveys that I took, because I already knew I had these traits as a part of my personality. However, the results from my learning styles survey were a little surprising to me. I got visual as my highest total score, while kinesthetic and auditory were almost balanced out scores. The reason why I was a little surprised was that last year, I took a survey to figure out my learning style, and I got both auditory and visual learner. The results have their little differences, but that shows people do change over time. Learning styles can be learned and strengthened.