Assignment: LEARNING STYLES

Study Skills 101
2022-07-18T06:39:58Z

Due: Aug 1, 2022 by 11:59pm

Making the most of your motivation, goals, and time also requires knowing how to learn best. Researchers have investigated how people learn best and have categorized the results into specific learning styles. You can benefit from understanding more about your learning preferences. The more awareness you have, the better student you become.

LEARN STYLES INVENTORIES

A learning style inventory is a questionnaire that provides a profile of your preferences. North Carolina State University categorized learners into the following categories:

ACTIVE AND REFLECTIVE LEARNERS

Active learners tend to retain and understand information best by doing something active
with it—discussing or applying it or explaining it to others. Reflective learners prefer to think
about it quietly first.

"Let's try it out and see how it works" is an active learner's phrase; "Let's think it through
first" is the reflective learner's response.

Active learners tend to like group work more than reflective learners, who prefer working
alone.

Sitting through lectures without getting to do anything physical but take notes is hard for
both learning types, but particularly hard for active learners.

Everybody is active sometimes and reflective sometimes. Your preference for one category may be strong, moderate, or mild. A balance of the two is desirable. If you
always act before reflecting, you can jump into things prematurely and get into trouble, while if you spend too much time reflecting, you may never get anything done. If you always act before reflecting you can jump into things prematurely and get into trouble, while if you spend too much time reflecting you may never get anything done.

SENSING AND INTUITIVE LEARNERS

Sensing learners tend to like learning facts, intuitive learners often prefer discovering
possibilities and relationships.

Sensors often like solving problems by well-established methods and dislike complications
and surprises; intuitors like innovation and dislike repetition. Sensors are more likely than
intuitors to resent being tested on material that has not been explicitly covered in class.

Sensors tend to be patient with details and good at memorizing facts and doing hands-on
(laboratory) work; intuitors may better grasp new concepts and are often more
comfortable than sensors with abstractions and mathematical formulations.

Sensors tend to be more practical and careful than intuitors; intuitors tend to work faster and
to be more innovative than sensors.

Sensors don't like courses that have no apparent connection to the real world; intuitors don't
like "plug-and-chug" courses that involve a lot of memorization and routine calculations.

Everybody is sensing sometimes and intuitive sometimes. Your preference for one or the
other may be strong, moderate, or mild. It would help if you functioned both ways to be effective as a learner and problem solver. If you overemphasize intuition, you may miss important
details or make careless mistakes in calculations or hands-on work; if you overemphasize
sensing, you may rely too much on memorization and familiar methods and not concentrate
enough on understanding and innovative thinking.

VISUAL AND VERBAL LEARNERS

Visual learners remember best what they see—pictures, diagrams, flow charts, timelines,
films, and demonstrations. Verbal learners get more out of words—written and spoken
explanations. Everyone learns more when information is presented both visually and verbally.

In most college classes, very little visual information is presented: students mainly listen
to lectures and read material written on chalkboards, textbooks, and handouts.
Unfortunately, most people are visual learners, meaning most students do not get nearly
as much as they would if more visual presentations were used in class. Good learners are capable
of processing information presented either visually or verbally.

SEQUENTIAL AND GLOBAL LEARNERS

Sequential learners tend to gain understanding in linear steps, with each step following
logically from the previous one. Global learners learn in large jumps, absorbing
material almost randomly without seeing connections and suddenly "getting it."

Sequential learners tend to follow logical stepwise paths in finding solutions; global learners
may be able to solve complex problems quickly or put things together in novel ways once
they have grasped the big picture, but they may have difficulty explaining how they did it.

Many people who read this description may conclude incorrectly that they are global
since everyone has experienced bewilderment followed by a sudden flash of understanding.
What makes you global or not is what happens before the light bulb goes on. Sequential learners
may not fully understand the material. Still, they can do something with it (like solve
the homework problems or pass the test) since the pieces they have absorbed are logically
connected. Strongly global learners who lack good sequential thinking abilities, on the other
hand, may have serious difficulties until they have the big picture. Even after they have it, they
may be fuzzy about the details of the subject. At the same time, sequential learners may know a lot about
specific aspects of a subject but may have trouble relating them to different parts of the
subject or to other subjects.

If you learn according to your learning preference, you are more likely to be motivated; if you are motivated, you are more likely to be successful. What you do with your knowledge of your learning preference will make you successful.

Learning style inventories are available online or through your institution's advising or academic center. Most people learn predominately with one of the four learning styles, but some people have a secondary type that works well for them, too. Which of the following learning styles sounds most like you?

Below is the Index of Learning Style Questionnaire by Richard M. Felder and Barbara A. Soloman from North Carolina State University.

You Can Access The Learning Style Inventory Here

You Can Access The Learning Styles and Strategies Here

After completing your learning style inventory, please print out your results, upload them, and send them to me.

References:

NC State University. (2019). Index of Learning Styles Questionnaire. Ncsu.edu. https://www.webtools.ncsu.edu/learningstyles/

Making the most of your motivation, goals, and time also requires knowing how to learn best. Researchers have investigated how people learn best and have categorized the results into specific learning styles. You can benefit from understanding more about your learning preferences. The more awareness you have, the better student you become.

LEARN STYLES INVENTORIES

A learning style inventory is a questionnaire that provides a profile of your preferences. North Carolina State University categorized learners into the following categories:

ACTIVE AND REFLECTIVE LEARNERS

Active learners tend to retain and understand information best by doing something active
with it—discussing or applying it or explaining it to others. Reflective learners prefer to think
about it quietly first.

"Let's try it out and see how it works" is an active learner's phrase; "Let's think it through
first" is the reflective learner's response.

Active learners tend to like group work more than reflective learners, who prefer working
alone.

Sitting through lectures without getting to do anything physical but take notes is hard for
both learning types, but particularly hard for active learners.

Everybody is active sometimes and reflective sometimes. Your preference for one category may be strong, moderate, or mild. A balance of the two is desirable. If you
always act before reflecting, you can jump into things prematurely and get into trouble, while if you spend too much time reflecting, you may never get anything done. If you always act before reflecting you can jump into things prematurely and get into trouble, while if you spend too much time reflecting you may never get anything done.

SENSING AND INTUITIVE LEARNERS

Sensing learners tend to like learning facts, intuitive learners often prefer discovering
possibilities and relationships.

Sensors often like solving problems by well-established methods and dislike complications
and surprises; intuitors like innovation and dislike repetition. Sensors are more likely than
intuitors to resent being tested on material that has not been explicitly covered in class.

Sensors tend to be patient with details and good at memorizing facts and doing hands-on
(laboratory) work; intuitors may better grasp new concepts and are often more
comfortable than sensors with abstractions and mathematical formulations.

Sensors tend to be more practical and careful than intuitors; intuitors tend to work faster and
to be more innovative than sensors.

Sensors don't like courses that have no apparent connection to the real world; intuitors don't
like "plug-and-chug" courses that involve a lot of memorization and routine calculations.

Everybody is sensing sometimes and intuitive sometimes. Your preference for one or the
other may be strong, moderate, or mild. It would help if you functioned both ways to be effective as a learner and problem solver. If you overemphasize intuition, you may miss important
details or make careless mistakes in calculations or hands-on work; if you overemphasize
sensing, you may rely too much on memorization and familiar methods and not concentrate
enough on understanding and innovative thinking.

VISUAL AND VERBAL LEARNERS

Visual learners remember best what they see—pictures, diagrams, flow charts, timelines,
films, and demonstrations. Verbal learners get more out of words—written and spoken
explanations. Everyone learns more when information is presented both visually and verbally.

In most college classes, very little visual information is presented: students mainly listen
to lectures and read material written on chalkboards, textbooks, and handouts.
Unfortunately, most people are visual learners, meaning most students do not get nearly
as much as they would if more visual presentations were used in class. Good learners are capable
of processing information presented either visually or verbally.

SEQUENTIAL AND GLOBAL LEARNERS

Sequential learners tend to gain understanding in linear steps, with each step following
logically from the previous one. Global learners learn in large jumps, absorbing
material almost randomly without seeing connections and suddenly "getting it."

Sequential learners tend to follow logical stepwise paths in finding solutions; global learners
may be able to solve complex problems quickly or put things together in novel ways once
they have grasped the big picture, but they may have difficulty explaining how they did it.

Many people who read this description may conclude incorrectly that they are global
since everyone has experienced bewilderment followed by a sudden flash of understanding.
What makes you global or not is what happens before the light bulb goes on. Sequential learners
may not fully understand the material. Still, they can do something with it (like solve
the homework problems or pass the test) since the pieces they have absorbed are logically
connected. Strongly global learners who lack good sequential thinking abilities, on the other
hand, may have serious difficulties until they have the big picture. Even after they have it, they
may be fuzzy about the details of the subject. At the same time, sequential learners may know a lot about
specific aspects of a subject but may have trouble relating them to different parts of the
subject or to other subjects.

If you learn according to your learning preference, you are more likely to be motivated; if you are motivated, you are more likely to be successful. What you do with your knowledge of your learning preference will make you successful.

Learning style inventories are available online or through your institution's advising or academic center. Most people learn predominately with one of the four learning styles, but some people have a secondary type that works well for them, too. Which of the following learning styles sounds most like you?

Below is the Index of Learning Style Questionnaire by Richard M. Felder and Barbara A. Soloman from North Carolina State University.

You Can Access The Learning Style Inventory Here

You Can Access The Learning Styles and Strategies Here

After completing your learning style inventory, please print out your results, upload them, and send them to me.

References:

NC State University. (2019). Index of Learning Styles Questionnaire. Ncsu.edu. https://www.webtools.ncsu.edu/learningstyles/