Personal Narrative: My Learning Style Inventory

I am using the tactile and visual learning style almost every day. For instance, during my College Algebra class last quarter, I left the class every day without any idea of what the instructor was talking about. However, when I read the notes I took in class, and began working through the problems on my own, I finally started to understand what was going on, and “why” I was doing it. Granted, it took some failures, but through trial and error, I was able to learn and adapt to the

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

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

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,

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|

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

Starting in fifth grade when I first picked up a viola, orchestra has been a fundamental part of my identity in school. My first year in high school I was in the entry level orchestra, which I greatly enjoyed despite the easier music because of the community of people in the class. At the end of my freshman year, orchestra got the news that the number of orchestra classes would be cut down to two, making an entry level class, symphonic, and an audition only higher level class, chamber. Wanting a challenge, I auditioned for chamber, but I did not get in. Now, this was not the failure that came with a grand lesson There happened to be a large number of very talented violinists who had seniority over me. There also happened to be a shortage of

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.

The first inventory also showed that I am a visual learner and that pictures, diagrams, flow charts, time lines, films, and demonstrations help me grasp information better(Felder & Soloman, n.d.). Learning Style Inventory by Penn State University corresponded with the first inventory and stated that I was a visual learner, and that I visualize concepts in my head (Penn State, 2010).

I began the learning style inventory with reasonable understanding of how I learn due to my professional requirements. As I studied each answer, it wasn’t as straightforward as I had originally suspected. I found it, at times difficult to pick one answer over the other in part because of many diverse prior personal experiences. This unit has taught me a lot about learning styles and how they can possibly overlap. Even though there’s a lot of overlapping, I could tell that my preference of learning style was analytical. I’ve always valued hands on experience, but I can now see how my learning styles play off one another. Once I obtain the hands on experience I can analyze each step to improve my performance in the future. Even though I enjoy

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.

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 inventory did not reflect my original predication. I’ve always considered myself a tactile/kinesthetic learner. Typically, when I’m listening to people give information I get caught up on one bit of information and miss something. While I do enjoy visual representations of information taking part in something gives it more meaning and I am better able to retain information. This outcome of the learning inventory was very surprising. The inventory showed that I am actually capable of learning using all learning styles. In each area of the inventory I scored an eight. It’s interesting because according to Collinson (2000) high performing students are often tactile learners, while low performing students aren’t very good auditory learners, but are good visual learners. I do see how not just one of these preferences reflect my learning preference.

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.