...above ways of gathering information are referred to as how a person best learns or gathers information. A person who likes to read, have important information printed out for them, or needs an instruction manual to put something together are often visual learners. Those who like to listen to lectures, watch videos, can hear something and remember it, and needs to speak through direction are called aural learners. Kinesthetic learners are hands on; they do best by performing an activity for themselves. It is very hard for a kinesthetic learner to just sit and listen, and not perform the activity they are listening to. * After completing the VARK questionnaire the identified learning style was kinesthetic with a score of 13 closely followed by read/write with a score of 11. Kinesthetic learners usually do not like sitting and listening. Research shows adults who are kinesthetic learners do best with hands on activities (Russell, 2006). Having a read/write score 11 means reading and writing is another identified way of learning. According to research these learners will need written instructions provided. Read/write learners will read and follow the directions and may even take notes for their own personal reference (Russell, 2006). * Being a kinesthetic and read/write learner, becoming a nurse was a good occupation choice. Nursing school offers many instances where learners can read and write to take notes, along with having real practical hands on experiences...
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...analyze the information and use it to make decisions and create new meanings and then if necessary change the process. Learning strategies is how a person approaches learning and uses the information. Learning strategies helps learner understand information, solve problems and be successful. Student Learning Style VARK has identified four different strategies to learning which is visual, aural, read/write and kinesthetic. VARK provides students information regarding indication of their stronger and weaker preferences. Each learning style has its own preferred method for intake and output of information. Not all students have one preferred method, one can use different learning style in different situations, which is multimodal. Visual learners take in information by pictures and analyzing each portion, aural learner prefer to hear things by taping lectures and attend discussions, kinesthetic learner can use samples, photographs etc., and read/write learner take in information by using dictionaries, reviewing notes, textbooks, handouts etc. According to VARK the results of the quiz taken was visual-three, aural-seven, read/write-twelve and kinesthetic-seven with a mild read/write learning preferences. As a student, the learning style that has the most impact is a quiet environment, using textbooks, reading alone, reviewing handouts, taking notes and re-read them as necessary. Handouts has been a positive impact with great benefit to the learning style. Preferred Learning Strategies ...
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...in order to make it shorter or clearer.” When you paraphrase another author's writing you rewrite their argument using your own words, phrasing and interpreting it in your own way. How to paraphrase • change the vocabulary • reorganise the structure of the argument • cite the author directly, For example the direct quote from Halliday (1978:1) “A child creates, first his child tongue, then his mother tongue, in interaction with that little coterie of people who constitute his meaning group …” • Halliday (1978) claims that children develop their language by interacting with those around them • OR • Children develop their language by interaction with those around them (Halliday, 1978). Some helpful guidelines • As you study and write your notes do not copy chunks of text directly out of the book, instead always write your study notes in your own words. Remember to note which book or article your notes were drawn from for your reference information. • Check your writing against the books and articles you are using as sources. If the words you have written are too similar to the original, you should try to revise your own wording. • Once you have taken notes from the original source, work only from your notes; put the original article or book away. Successful vs unsuccessful paraphrases Paraphrasing is often defined as putting...
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...styles vary from student to student. Each student brings different experiences, culture, level of preparedness and learning style to class room environment. To understand your individual learning style Neil Fleming as a questionnaire for understanding learning styles. The VARK-Visual, Auditory, Read/Write, and Kinesthetic questionnaire was developed to be used as tool to better understand learning styles and how to apply to learning. VARK focuses on the sensory modality dimension of learning; the way that information is taken And processed by the leaner: visual, aural, read/write, or kinesthetic (Sinclaire, Spring 2012). Visual learners favor information presented in diagrams, illustration, powerpoints and handouts. Also the visual learner is more likely to take additional notes during lectures. Learning by seeing the information being presented. Aural learners learn through listening. During Aural learning the student learns best hearing lectures, tutorials and discussions. Autditory learners understand the underlying meaning of speech through active listening. Read/Write learners favor printed information. They learn best through reading and writing. Read/Write learners comprehend information being displayed as words. Kinesthetic learners learn through touching, moving and doing. The hand on approach works well for kinesthetic learners. The kinesthetic learners needs to be involved in the subject to understand, they need to do things to understand...
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...Analysis Julie Gongaware NRS-429V August 23, 2015 VARK Questionnaire Analysis Preferred learning strategies and styles have a tendency to vary significantly from person to person. Everyone has a different way, or combination of ways that they absorb, perceive and process newly learned information. In ‘The VARK Questionnaire: How Do I Learn Best,” a short series of questions identifies learning strategies for the person that is participating in the questionnaire. In this particular analysis J.G., the subject of the questionnaire, found that she has a multimodal preference to learning and is flexible in her communication preferences while switching from mode to mode depending on what type of material she is working with (VARK, 2015). Multimodal learners may encompass all of the strategies, visual, aural, read/write, and kinesthetic or at least more than one. J.G. found that she possessed preferences in each strategy with stronger learning attributes in aural and read/write strategies. Through the VARK questionnaire, J.G.’s personal learning preference has been identified as multimodal with aural being her primary style and read/write being the second most preferred style for learning. Aural refers to listening. The description of an aural strategy per the VARK (2015) questionnaire shows a preference toward receiving information that is vocalized or heard and the use of questioning as a vital component of learning. According to The Institute for Learning Styles Research...
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...Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V Family Centered Health Promotion May 30, 2014 Learning Styles After completing the “VARK Questionnaire: How Do I Learn Best?” I discovered that I am a Multimodal learner. Because I am a Multimodal learner and my scores were equal between Read/write (8), Kinesthetic (8) and Aural (8), with a score of 0 in visual, there is no standout area of learning style for me. A summary of my learning style will include a combination of Read/write, Kinesthetic and Aural. I will include my preferred learning strategies and compare them to the identified learning strategies by the VARK help sheets. I will also discuss how the awareness of individual learning styles, preferences and strategies influence teaching and learning. A person in a position to learn will benefit in processing and retaining information by knowing what their individual learning style is. Also knowing your individual learning style can be beneficial in processing and retaining information based on what the person in the position of teaching is presenting and how they are presenting the material. With that being said, my learning style(s) of Multimodal may adapt to each learning situation. According to the questionnaire, “How Do I Learn Best?” help sheets, “If the teacher, trainer or supervisor preferred a written mode she switched into Read/write for her responses and for her learning” (VARK website). The Multimodal learning strategy is beneficial because it does allows for the option...
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...learning, how they like to receive information, process it, and file it in their brain for future use either for their jobs or for formal education. The most common styles of learning are Visual, you like to see what you are learning, Aural, you like to hear what you are learning, Read/Write you like to see on paper in words what you are learning, Kinesthetic, you like a hands on approach to learning, and Multimodal you learn best using different styles. This writer completed the VARK questionnaire to discover her learning styles. The VARK questionnaire has 13 questions and indicates the preferences in which learning is taken in. It is not a definitive measure of learning, just a tool to discover learning preferences. VARK Questionnaire with scores From the profile generated from the VARK questionnaire, this writer confirmed that she enjoys a variety of learning styles, this is known as multimodal. The VARK learning scores were Visual=5, Aural (hearing) =10, R (read/write) =12, and K (Kinesthetic) =7 for a total score of 34 (Fleming). This is very close to what the writer already knew about her preferred learning styles. Preferred learning styles According to the VARK questionnaire this writers’ strongest learning preference is read/write. When listening to a lecture, writing notes and seeing a power point presentation is her strongest way to learn. This combines her scores of Aural and Read/Write. This writer's learning style prior to learning about the VARK was to write notes...
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...school, or in a health care environment. Write your answers in paragraph form. 1. Briefly describe the misunderstanding, including the setting and the people involved. There was a misunderstanding about physical therapy nurse that came into the facility to have physical therapy with one of my residents. 2. Complete the following table with information from your described misunderstanding. Question | Answer | Who was the sender? | The manager | Who was the receiver? | Physical therapy nurse | What was the message? | Letting the nurse know that when she came into the facility that she had to write in the residents chart to let me know what type of progress that the resident was making. | What channel was used to send the message? | I asked her to please write in the chart of the resident that she was performing therapy with | What was the misunderstanding? | The nurse would not write in the chart she said it was because of the HIPPA law | How could you have avoided the misunderstanding? | Needed to sit down and explain to her the notes that she wrote was only seen by staff, and the doctor that we where following the HIPPA law, but that we needed to know the progress as well. | 3. The perception model in Ch. 2 of Communicating in the Workplace shows that prior knowledge and experiences combine with your psychological state to shape your subjective reality. What was your perception going into the situation? How did your perception of the misunderstanding...
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...Running head: VARK Analysis VARK Analysis: How Do I Learn Best? Jolanta Nietupska Grand Canyon University Family Centered Health Promotion NRS-429v Date: January 21, 2012 Summary: VARK learning styles theories were designed by Neil Fleming in 1987. These theories describe learning styles, distinct types of a learner’s processing information, and identify the best ways to study. The VARK learning styles theories divide learning components into four parts including: visual, aural, read/write, and kinesthetic styles. What’s more, VARK learning styles help to identify people’s preferred learning styles so that their work achieves the best outcome. Furthermore, VARK helps people develop study skills which benefit learning and teaching experiences. This paper will discuss VARK analysis learning styles, determine my preferred learning strategies, and changes that I need to make in my study habits in order to become a successful student. First, the VARK learning styles theory is based on the idea that different people learn in different ways. The VARK theory uses four main sensory receivers (acronym VARK): visual, aural, read-write, and kinesthetic in order to best serve the needs of a successful student. Neil Fleming said:” VARK learning styles are based on modalities-channels by which human expression can take place and is composed of a combination of perception and memory” (Fleming, 2006). The VARK analyses believe that visual learners learn best...
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...Figure 1. Sellers, J. (2013). Physical Therapy Figure 1. Sellers, J. (2013). Physical Therapy By: Corbin Felts By: Corbin Felts Communicating Effectively in the Field of Physical Therapy Communicating Effectively in the Field of Physical Therapy Injuries cannot be avoided in the world of competitive sports. Of course, when injuries occur, they must be treated. The significance and type of injury can vary but it is the physical therapist’s responsibility to insure quality treatment. The duties of a physical therapist include evaluating, diagnosing, and documenting the type of injury(s), as well as prescribing appropriate treatment. Writing in the field of physical therapy plays a key role to the success of a patient’s wellbeing as well as a physical therapist’s career. When giving your written diagnosis and treatment plans, the accuracy and articulation of your writing holds the key to either a speedy recovery or the risk of further injury. Physical therapists must stress the importance of being able to communicate with patients both orally and in writing. Injuries cannot be avoided in the world of competitive sports. Of course, when injuries occur, they must be treated. The significance and type of injury can vary but it is the physical therapist’s responsibility to insure quality treatment. The duties of a physical therapist include evaluating, diagnosing, and documenting the type of injury(s), as well as prescribing appropriate treatment. Writing in the field...
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...assessment is a questionnaire that was designed by Neil Flemming in 1987. It provides those who take it with a profile of their learning style(s). There are four scores that can give a person up to five study strategies: multimodal, visual, aural, read/write, and kinesthetic (Flemming, 2010). The way these scores add up tells a person where they fall within five areas, with multimodal being the most common at about 60% of the population (Flemming, 2010). Whatever learning style a person has, the preferences show how they take in and give out information. This paper will discuss in large part multimodal as the author has taken the VARK questionnaire and tested as such. Multimodal is the most common of the five learning styles, but it is also the most varied (Flemming, 2010). People will not necessarily have the same levels of each learning preference. One could have a very strong score in aural and read/write, but a low one in the last two. They could also have three strong scores and then one weak one. There are even some people who have scores that are even across the board. Based on that, people who are multimodal must then study more than one area to strengthen their preferences. If one is strong in read/write and kinesthetic, then that person would obviously want follow study examples that pertain to reading/writing and kinesthetic: making lists etc. and hands on. Flemming has went on to further define multimodal in recent years. He considers that there may...
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...they prepare to learn and recall information, so it is also important to know this in order to tailor a teacher's teaching methodology to suit his students."( Ranganath, 2015). According to the Vark's questionnaire, there are several learning styles that helps my learning by suggesting the strategies I should be using such as "visual, Aural, Read/Write, and Kinesthetic."( Fleming). Visual Learner " A Visual learner can remember and achieve the best results by looking at the pictures, images, movies, and demonstrations by the teacher or conducted oneself." (" (Felder, 2015). An example that comes to mind is a physiology and anatomy class where an anatomy mannequin was used as a display for all the students to study organ position. Each organ had a corresponding number which was used to identity it and its adjacent organ-neighbors The very act of seeing the training mannequin and its internals was stimulating and beneficial in the comprehension of the structure and shape of each organ, its relative position to others and interconnection to other body systems and as a whole. Read/Write...
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...learning but the most famous modal was created by Neil Fleming, an educator, who designed VARK Learning Style which increase the ability of students to improve their learning to be a successful to achieve their goals in school and in carrier which provide them an opportunity for better understand their students through VARK learning assessment. VARK learning modal identifies four basic learning styles. VARK stand for visual, aural, read/write and kinesthetic. Visual style help learners by remembering things, such as facts they see with their naked eye and to remember it more lastingly. Visual style play a vital role in our everyday lives, it also helps learners to learn more effectively. Aural learning style provide an opportunity for the learner to hear attentively by utilizing his/her hearing skills and write the notes easily. They are also good at oral exams, effective listeners to information delivered orally, such as lectures speeches and oral sessions. The read/write learners prefers to take notes , use dictionary for references, make notes and re read their materials. According to the VARK assessment author learning style is multimodal, this style incorporates variation of learning styles. “Multimodal encompasses the students who fall into more than one sensory modality of any combination”. (Marcy, A; 2001, p.3). In this style learners can have the blending of visual and aural,...
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...VARK Analysis from a Read/write perspective Grand Canyon University: NRS-429 Family Centered Health Promotion February 24th, 2013 VARK Analysis from a read/write perspective This paper will reflect a nurses learning preference of mild read/write according to the visual, aural, read/write or kinesthetic (VARK) analysis questionnaire. “VARK is a questionnaire that provides users with a profile of their learning preferences. These preferences are about the ways that they want to take-in and give-out information (Fleming2001-2011)”. A review of each of the other learning preferences will be reviewed. Also a discussion of why this nurse would not be successful with the other learning preferences and why read/write is the optimum choice. Visual Visual, the first of the four learning preferences is a learning method with the need to use visual aids. “This preference includes the depiction of information in maps, spider diagrams, charts, graphs, flow charts, labelled diagrams, and all the symbolic arrows, circles, hierarchies and other devices that people use to represent what could have been presented in words (Fleming 2001-2011).” Simply put if visual is your learning preference the need to see information in graphs or presented as a pie chart alone with little wording would help better understand the information relayed. A read/write learning preference would need more words less diagrams to be able to retain the correct information. Too many pictures of charts, or diagrams...
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...“The VARK Questionnaire: How Do I Learn Best?” Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V June 9, 2013 “The VARK Questionnaire: How Do I Learn Best?” People are different in so many ways, from physical differences, personality differences, culture differences, and learning differences. We all have different ways that we take in information and understand information we are receiving. This increases the challenge to understand how some tasks are easier to learn then others in various students (Meehan-Andrews, 2009). A learning model was created in the 1980’s by Neil Fleming called VARK that defines and explains the different ways people learn (VARK, 2011 ). VARK is an acronym for visual, aural, read/write, kinesthetic learning styles in one model (Alkhasawnch, 2007). The evaluation breaks down the person’s different learning styles into four different areas of learning and gives the learner an idea of what area of learning is the strongest. There are four different learning styles presented in this VARK model: visual (pictures, movies, diagrams), auditory (music, discussion, lectures), reading and writing (making lists, reading textbooks, taking notes), and kinesthetic (movement, experiments, hands-on activities) (VARK, 2011). My Learning Style The Reading/Write learning model is one of the four different learning styles presented in the VARK model. The results for this learner were a strong Read/Write learning preference and the score given was 9. Visual was a 3, Aural...
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