...Reflective essay of Honey and Mumford learning Styles According to Pashler et al. (2008), the term of learning style is assumed to be an approach that can able to enable individuals to achieve the best learning state. Different people have their own particular learning style. It’s important to clearly understand our own learning style for better analyze ourselves and other different learning style for better manage different types of people and their preferences for learning and working in a team. Honey & Mumford learning styles questionnaire is a research instrument which developed for discovering students’ learning style within a higher education (Duff & Duffy 2002; Coffield et al. 2004) and management practices (Allinson & Hayes 1990).It includes four types of learning style which are activist, reflector, theorist and pragmatist style (Honey & Mumford 1986). I am Reflector and Theorist which are preference the same score by the test result. As the test described Reflector this type of person prefer stand back and look at a situation from different perspectives, and stated Theorist prefer to analyze and synthesize observations, drawing new information into a systematic and logical theories (Honey & Mumford 1986). I feel so surprised because this is definitely describes me. From this perspective, this test is quite accurate, at least for me. I remember in my high school, I was the vice monitor of our class. The first week of Monday, teacher required our class leader...
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...Kinesthetic Learner There are three main learning styles which consist of visual, auditory, and kinesthetic. A visual learner learns best by visually seeing and reading what they are learning. An auditory learner enjoys listening to what is being taught in order to better comprehend the material. Kinesthetic learners are typically hands on learners. Kinesthetic learners use bodily communication to assist with learning amongst several other strategies is extremely helpful; however we can also have multiple distractions. Kinesthetic learners use physical activity to learn and comprehend information. When I took the learning styles quiz I scored a seven on the kinesthetic learning section, I also scored a five on the visual and auditory learning sections. Although my score shows that I have strong points in each learning aspect, the way I feel I learn to the best of my ability is through the kinesthetic learning style. The outcome of this quiz does not come to a surprise to me due to the fact I have always considered myself to have kinesthetic learning habits. There are numerous strategies that are used by kinesthetic learners. Thinking proactive and taking color coded notes, sitting in the back of the class in case you fidget, and being creative with power points or projects are great strategies to use. Personally I like to listen to Mozart and other non vocal music while I am studying, taking notes, or writing essays. Taking breaks, working in short intervals, and...
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...The various learning styles assessments that Ashley completed showed that she has a multimodal learning preference. This means that she can use multiple learning strategies to her benefit when learning. Although she is a multimodal learner, some of her strengths include linguistic, kinesthetic, tactile, and intrapersonal. To strengthen her learning and studying habits to meet the demands of college, she should apply her strengths when preparing notes, making real-world connections to better understand topics, and when managing time to study. Preparing notes is the first step to student success. Taking notes during instructional time taps into Ashley’s linguistic style of learning. According to www.edutopia.org (2015), verbal-linguistic intelligence...
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...VARK Analysis Research 1 Individual Learning Styles Lori Mckernan Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V July 30, 2013 VARK Analysis Research 2 Styles of learning vary greatly from person to person. According to VARK there are four basic styles of learning, Visual, Aural, Reading and Written, and Kinesthetic. Using helpful tools like VARK, students are able to figure out what learning style fits those best and enhances their learning experience to the fullest. In order for students to learn and be interested in a topic it is critical to figure out the value and importance of the learning topic given to them. (Kizlik) Doing this allows students to fully understand and benefit what is being taught to them. For this to happen it’s important to figure out one’s learning style. When you attempt to figure out your learning style there are many different books and websites to gain information from. By filling out different questionnaires or taking certain tests you will be able to figure out what learning style fits you best. Are you a Visual learner, or perhaps an auditory learner, maybe a combination of both? Do you learn better when someone gives you directions to read and understand, or do you benefit from a more hands on approach? After all the questions and tests the conclusion is the Reading and writing learning style fits this student best. Some valuable tools to help her learn include lists, dictionaries, handouts, textbooks, notes and library readings. (VARK)...
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...The VARK learning questionnaire was developed by Neil Fleming of Christchurch, New Zealand in 1987. The VARK is a tool used to provide people with their own personal learning preference. It is used to help individuals learn ways that each of us take in and give out knowledge. The different styles of learning are visual, aural/auditory, read/write, and kinesthetic. • Visual (V) learners prefer information placed in maps, spider diagrams, charts, graphs, labeled diagrams and symbolic arrows. • Aural/Auditory (A) learners prefer information that is heard. This type of learner has a preference to lectures, group discussion, emails, speaking, and web-chats. They prefer talking out loud and to self. They prefer to sort things out in their own way. • Read/Write (R) learners like information provided in words. The preferred leaning modalities text bases in such forms as manuals, reports, essays and PowerPoints. • Kinesthetic (K) learners prefer experience and practice. They prefer the information provided to be through concrete personal experiences or practice and the hands on approach. I, like 50 to 75 percent of people that take the questionnaire, scored in the multi-dimensional category with a preference towards the read/write and kinesthetic categories. Preference to the Read/Write category means that people that fall into this category like words and are strong note takers. They should take information from dictionaries, glossaries, list, notes, and essays and usually...
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...NRS-429V Family-Centered Health Promotion students were required to take a questionnaire about their learning styles. The study-VARK- outlined the four learning styles: Visual Learning, Aural, Reading and Writing, and Kinesthetic. VARK helped tell students their strong points and their weaker ones that the student need to improve. The VARK Questionnaire Results: The Writer’s scores were: •Visual: 4 •Aural: 7 •Read/Write: 12 •Kinesthetic: 3 This essay is about this essay’s writer’s learning style, strategies, and the VARK learning strategy guide. This essay will go into depth with the writer, ways a person can improve their learning strategies, their learning styles, and other learning style. The writer thinks it is important that learning styles is thought about often, because it could help you with tests, essays, and homework assignments. It helps to know a person’s strong points, and know to strengthen your weaker points, so a person can pinpoint ways to help them flourish in their studies. The learning style mainly used by the writer are reading and writing. This helps when there is a hard homework assignment or essay comes up and when the writer is unsure on what to do. The writer starts by reading the material that was given to the writer of this essay. Having a reading and writing learning style helps improve writing, because this writer sometimes rewrites things to get a better grasp on it....
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...customers. And we aim to expand our market the whole Myanmar. Mission - To provide high quality items to our customers. - To give the best service to customers. Objective - In 5 years, we must get our aim of to become one of the top companies. Organization structure In this organization structure, my position is under CEO. I am responsible for my under departments, marketing, finance, HR, IT and warehousing. In this assignment I am going to discuss my personal development plan and how I will develop my personal skills which will help me in my current situation. Personal development plan (PDP) is a structured and supported process undertaken by an individual to reflect upon their own learning, performance and achievement and to plan for their personal, educational and career development. In accordance with the requirement of Task 1, it is needed to identify and analyze the SMART objectives of personal and as well as organizational and also along with for the purpose of achieve these objectives, the required skills are also analyzed and explained on this task. In focusing towards the acronym of SMART, my personal and organizational objectives should be specific, measurable,...
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...our valuable customers. And we aim to expand our market the whole Myanmar. Mission - To provide high quality items to our customers. - To give the best service to customers. Objective - In 5 years, we must get our aim of to become one of the top companies. Organization structure In this organization structure, my position is under CEO. I am responsible for my under departments, marketing, finance, HR, IT and warehousing. In this assignment I am going to discuss my personal development plan and how I will develop my personal skills which will help me in my current situation. Personal development plan (PDP) is a structured and supported process undertaken by an individual to reflect upon their own learning, performance and achievement and to plan for their personal, educational and career development. In accordance with the requirement of Task 1, it is needed to identify and analyze the SMART objectives of personal and as well as organizational and also along with for the purpose of achieve these objectives, the required skills are also analyzed and explained on this task. In focusing towards the acronym of SMART, my personal and organizational objectives should be specific, measurable, achievable, realistic...
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...Everybody has their own learning styles. Some learn by seeing, some by hearing, some by reading or writing and some by experiencing things. Multifocal learning is the preferred learning style for majority of the learning population. Multifocal learning can be a combination of Visual and Auditory or Read/Write or Kinesthetic. It can also be a combination of 2or 3 of the above mentioned leaning styles. Multifocal Learning helps to use more strategies to learn and communicate. So based on the questionnaire aural, read/write and kinesthetic is the preferred learning style. For the multifocal learners, they prefer more techniques of learning and they may feel incomplete if they have to stick to only one strategy. To learn new things in desirable way, one is comfortable and they have to make useful what they are involved and to get good grades, one has to prefer one main learning strategy and make use of the other strategies as a support. Of the three strategies mentioned in the preferred leaning styles, read / write is the one which sounds good. Compared to strategies like aural, read / write and kinesthetic, read/write has more benefits. Most people use some or all of the instructions mentioned below if reading / writing is strongly preferred. The information is taken in the best way if one will do lists of readings , note headings, refer dictionaries, mark glossaries, have definitions and handouts, do reading like read textbooks and library readings, have notes of whatever you...
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...Describe different ways of learning including both activity and study based learning, explaining the effect of understanding your learning style. Learning styles are different approaches or ways of learning. Everyone has a preferred learning style and learn better through different means. Understanding our preferred learning style and how to best meet the needs of that particular style is essential to improve our performance in education. In order to understand information we take it all in with our senses, through sight, sound, touch, smell or taste. The Vak system is categorized into three main styles: Visual, auditory and Kinaesthetic. This essay will explore these learning styles as well as activity and study based learning. Also the effect of understanding our preferred style. Visual is learning though seeing information presented in an illustrated or graphical way. 29% of us prefer to learn by seeing ( Smith 1998). Visual styles of learning is effective by communicating through pictures, diagrams, videos, charts, remembering what we see and needing an overall picture and purpose before we start ( Kelly, n.d). Auditory is learning through spoken words or listening. This particular type of learners Learns best through hearing things and benefits from class lectures. According to ( Smith 1998) 34% of us enjoy communicating through this particular style. Auditory learners learn more effectively by listening to audio tapes, radio programmes, reading aloud, through...
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...VARK Analysis Learning Style Scott T. Holman Grand Canyon University: NRS-429 June 17, 2014 VARK Analysis Learning Style Learning style is defined as an individual’s natural or habitual pattern of acquiring and processing information in learning situations (James, 1995). Most educational researchers and theorists generally agree that students learn in different ways (Tzu-Chien, 2009). There are many models that address learning styles including Davis A. Kolbs model based on Experiential Learning Theory, Anthony Gregorc’s Model, The Sudbury Model of Democratic Education, and so on. One of the most common and widely used models is Neil Flemming’s VARK model. The VARK model categorizes the types of learning styles as visual, aural, reading & writing, and kinesthetic or tactile. Visual learners are those that have a preference for visual aids such as graphs, diagrams, symbols, charts, etc. Aural learners learn best through lectures, discussions, and recordings. Reading/writing learners prefer text books, manuals, dictionaries and lists. The VARK model also categorizes a fifth learning style termed multimodal. Multimodal learns prefer a combination of the previous mentioned styles such as visual/aural or read & write/aural/kinesthetic. Fleming states that 60% of any population fits into the category of multimodal learners (Flemming, 2011). This authors’ style of learning has always been “read/write”. Through the use of textbook’s, journals, dictionaries, and verbatim...
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...Njabulo Mzulwini student number:53927427 unique number: 827947 EDAHOD-5 Assignment 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE A) Introduction 1 B) Question 1 2 1.1 Assessment Activities 2 1.1.1 Assessment Activity 1: the educator assessment 2 1.1.2 Assessment Activity 2: peer assessment 5 1.1.3 Assessment Activity 3: self-assessment 8 C) Question 2 11 2.1 Assessment Activity1 and design on Assessment Checklist 12 2.2 Assessment Activity2 and design on Assessment Grid 13 2.3 Assessment Activity3 and design an Assessment Rubric 14 D) Conclusion 15 E) Bibliography ...
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...VARK Analysis Every one has a mix of learning styles; some people may find that they have a dominant style of learning, with far less use of other styles in different circumstances. There is neither right or wrong style nor your style is fixed, you can develop your less dominant style and make improvement in your dominant ones. Your learning styles have more influence on your learning than you know it, they guide the way you learn. They also change the way you retain information and perceive experiences internally ("Overview of Learning Styles," n.d). Individuals have pathways that are specific to them, when information enters those pathways the information is retaining in short-term memory. Repeated exposure and use, promote retention in long-term memory. ("What Makes Perceptual Styles a Different Way of Learning." n.d) According to VARK questionnaire, I am a multimodal learner, who learns with two or more ways of learning, in my case I learn with (ARK) aural, means by listening, reading/writing, and kinesthetic, means using my other senses like manipulating and experimenting. Even though I learn, in so many different ways, my preferred style is to read and write and I use the other strategies as the additional support for my enhanced learning experience, which sounds very true because I like to read books and do some research before I attend class. I take notes in points, record the lecture on the recorder so I can hear it again. In addition, I learn by discussing with people...
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...Understanding your Learning Style Description of this Guide This is a brief overview of learning styles, their importance in Higher Education, and tips for making best use of your natural style. Learning Outcomes 1. Realise that there are many different learning styles 2. Discover resources where you can assess your learning style 3. Realise there are strategies you can use to make best use of your natural learning style Contents 1. Why tell me now? 2. What are learning styles? 1. Perceiving information 2. Processing information 3. Organizing and presenting information 3. What is my learning style? 1. Activists 2. Reflectors 3. Theorists 4. Pragmatists 4. What should I do now? 1. Advice for visual learners 2. Advice for auditory learners 3. Advice for tactile / kinaesthetic learners 5. Am I stuck with my learning style? ____________________________________________________________ ________ The material in this guide is copyright © 2003 the University of Southampton. Permission is given for it to be copied for use within the University of Southampton. All other rights are reserved. Understanding your Learning Style To begin, try a couple of mental exercises. [pic] Actvity 1 It is unlikely that your style of learning will be the same as anyone else on your programme. Try this out with a friend. Ask your friend to memorise these groups...
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...or without, having to support a family. For this reason, being academically successful comes with various steps that involve setting goals, learning styles, writing process, resources and having integrity. Setting goals can give you a long-term vision and short-term vision. In other words, an educational and career goal. It focuses on your acquirement of knowledge and helps you to organize your time and your resources so that you can make the very most of your life on how you planned it. As a result, the first step is to have an education goal. It’s always great to have an educational goal that will lead you to your career goal. For example, my educational goal is to obtain a bachelor's degree in Organizational Security and Management. The reason I set that as my educational goal is because my career goal is to become a peace officer (law enforcement officer) and then transition over to an air marshal when I obtain sufficient experience. Many of us acknowledge that everyone prefers different learning styles and techniques. A learning style groups common ways that people learn. Some people may find that they have a dominant style of learning, with far less use of the other methods. You can develop the ability in fewer dominant styles, as well as further develop styles that you already use well. There are seven different learning styles...
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