...Learning Preference Assessment Claudia Sanchez Grand Canyon University NRS-429V-0103 July 13, 2014 Learning Preference Assessment There are four different learning styles: visual, aural, reading/writing, and kinesthetic. Different people learn different ways; some are visual, some are aural, some are reader/writer, and some are kinesthetic learners. There are also people who have different degrees of combinations of the different learning styles. These learning styles preferences influence how people use different types of information to learn: some will learn better by observing, others by listening, others by reading or writing, and others by hands on practice, or any combination of these four. This paper analyzes the writer’s perceived preferred learning style by completing a questionnaire and compares it to the actual learning style or styles that the writer utilizes. Results of questionnaire After completing it, the questionnaire suggested that this writer’s learning preference is a combination of reading/writing and kinesthetic, with a score of 7 and 6 points respectively, while visual and aural obtained 2 and 1 points respectively (vark-learn.com). Reading/writing and kinesthetic study strategies The study strategies suggested by the website for the writer’s two strongest learning styles identified are: for reading/writing: taking and reading notes, changing information from diagrams and graphs to words, practicing with multiple choice questions, organizing information...
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...------------------------------------------------- MGT 312 ------------------------------------------------- Self-Assessment Report Cover Sheet ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Your name (Please print)_______________________________________ ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Student ID #________________________ Section_________________ ------------------------------------------------- AssessmentNo. | Assessment | Completed | 1 | How satisfied are you with your present job? Answer questions on p. 57 | | 2 | What is my Big 5 personality profile 5? Answer questions on p.82 | | 3 | What is the status of my acquired needs? Answer questions on p.150 | | 4 | What rewards do I value most? Answer questions on p.201 | | 5 | What are my signature strengths? Answer questions on p.244 | | 6 | Group and Team role preferences scale. Answer questions on p. 259 | | 7 | What is your preferred conflict handling style? Answer questions on p.351 | | 8 | Corporate culture preference scale. Answer questions on p. 501 | | | | | | | | ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Please write...
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...Visual, Aural/Auditory, Read/Write and Kinesthetic sensory modalities that help an individual discover their own learning preference. Neil Fleming and Mills created the VARK learning system in 1992, which includes questionnaire that allow people to choose multiple answers and assessment tool will evaluate the person best learning skills (Neil Fleming). Why is it important for an individual to understand their own learning style? Understanding and knowing learning style can help student be more effective, perform better on tests, learn information quickly and mostly likely to be successful. Various learners prefer various methods of learning, some prefer visual learning, while some choose to read textbooks and others prefer to take notes to learn. This paper will be focusing on more about preferred learning strategies and compare these strategies with identified strategies and lastly conclude with evaluating the modifications necessary for better studying habits. VARK focusses on four categories (Visual, Aural/Auditory, Read/Write and Kinesthetic) that reveal the understandings of student. Visual preferences are illustration of information in the form of diagrams, images, graph, map etc. that professor use to represent information than using words. Aural or Auditory preferences are when information is described through hearing and speaking. Read or write preferences are displayed information in the form or words. And lastly, Kinesthetic learning in which students learn information...
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...to focus on learning material with important segments. Any profession can use VARK learning methods to teach or introduce study materiel to their associates. The VARK questionnaire is based on four scores and there are five different learning strategies and they are, multimodal, visual, aural, read-write, kinesthetic. When an Individual takes the VARK questionnaire assessment, they will be scored under these four learning methods: visual aural, read/write, and kinesthetic. Each individual learning method are different, also it could be situational to the subject, environment and subject approach. After conducting VARK questionnaire, the results show my learning preference is multimodal. And according to VARK, if you have multiple preferences you are in the majority, as approximately 60% of any population fits that category (please use citation from VARK Multimodal study strategy_). My learning method scores are, visual 11, aural 11, read/write 13, and kinesthetic 11. Multimodal individuals’ shift their learning preferences depend up on matter of subject or certainty of subject. Changing learning preference according to the situation is significant to multimodal learners. According to VARK questionnaire Designer Neil D Fleming, there are two groups of Multimodal learners. Context Specific Approach is the first group and they look at the information that has to be learned or conveyed to another person and choose the mode that they believe is the best one for that situation...
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...diverse culture of students? The VARK, may very well be the solution for both teacher and student. “The VARK learning style model was introduced by Neil Fleming in 2006. VARK is an acronym, which stands for visual, aural, read/write, and kinesthetic modalities” (Prithishkumar & Michael, 2014, p. 184). The VARK is a short questionnaire that identifies the participants’ sensory modality preference. Helping the learner understanding how they learn and receive information. The verdict on the VARK learning assessment is that the writer falls into the category of the multimodal. This means she has a couple different learning preferences. Which was not a real surprise to her taking in consideration she prefers to listen to lectures but also enjoys hands on approach to learning as well. Taking a closer look at what this means for the writer and her preferred learning, what does multimodal mean anyways? According to the designer of the VARK, multimodal means that the learner prefers to learn using multiple learning modes. Whether or not the learner uses all of them at once, is the preference of the learner. There are three ways in which multimodal learners prefer to learn. They are described as: Context Specific Approach, Whole-Sense Approach and Sequencing (Fleming, 2014). Since a high percentage of learners are multimodal it is important to understand this modal. (Prithishkumar & Michael, 2014). Multimodal learners who...
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...model developed by Neil Fleming in 1987, to help students and others learn more about their individual learning preferences (Fleming & Mills, 2011). This model determines styles that help people build useful strategies for learning and enhancing communication skills. The assessment is done by completing 16 multiple-choice questionnaire. The answers determine a persons learning preferences. The styles determined are Visual, Aural, Read/Write, and Kinesthetic, or Multimodal, which is a combination of many preferences. After taking the VARK questionnaire you’ll be provided with a score divided into each style. The writer of this paper is multimodal like the majority of people whom take the questionnaire. Multimodal learners simply have more than one preferences of learning. Majority of people have a multimodal learning preferences when making decisions regarding learning. A method to learning and decision-making are seen in two groups with an unclear margin among them. Some have preferred ways to learn that looks at the information that has to be learned or conveyed to an alternative person and decide the mode they think is best for that circumstance. These people are found to be more context specific because they choose the mode that best suits their need. For example, if they are legalizing an important document they change on their read/write preference. If they are learning a physical skill the may use their Kinesthetic approach to work with it, hands on and becoming...
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... reading/writing, and kinesthetic) questionnaire was designed in 1987 by Mr. Neil D. Fleming, educator, Christchurch, New Zealand, to help students, educator and business professionals understand the different learning preferences and receive feedback and provide strategies to accommodate the difference learning preferences. The learning preferences are broken down into four different preference types, visual, aural, reading/writing, kinesthetic. Two additional learning styles are multimodal type 1 and multimodal type 2, which are different combinations or more than one learning preference. People who are visual learners use diagrams, maps, charts, and graphs. Aural learners are able to grasp better understanding of material being taught by hearing and listening, and would prefer lectures, group discussions, email and radio. Reading/writing learners prefer text based modalities such as text books, internet reading, manuals, reports and writing assignments. Kinesthetic learner’s find that they prefer hands-on experiences, demonstrations, simulations and instructional videos. Multimodal type 1 learners have more than one type of preference to engage in learning and base their learning on the situation, whereas type 2 need to learn from all four preferences and take time to learn information, although have broader and deeper understanding of the subject matter. (Fleming, 2009) Multimodal learners prefer to have multiple modalities to learn the same material to ave a thorough...
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...Style Learning style is defined as “an individual’s mode of gaining knowledge, esp. a preferred or best method” (Dictionary.com, “n.d.”). According to VARK, a learning style has more than 18 dimensions. These dimensions can include light, preferences for temperature, biorhythms, working with others, working alone, among many others (Fleming, 2011). VARK indicates that it is about one preference, “your preference for taking in, and putting out information when learning is the objective” (Fleming, 2011). VARK stands for visual, auditory, reading and writing and kinesthetic learners. The VARK model focuses on defining the type of learning style that works for each individual. If a student can find what their most effective learning style is, they will be able to study more effectively and efficiently. My learning style was identified as multimodal, and did not indicate a single preference, but rather two distinct preferences. Multimodal learning means applying multiple learning methods for diverse learning styles. It is noted that the majority of people, 60% of any population, utilize multimodal study strategies. Although I am listed as multimodal, I have two strong preferences, Aural and Read-Write. The Aural model shows a strong preference towards hearing. To take in information one should attend classes and discussions, use tape recorders, and discuss topics with others. It is recommended that aural learners summarize notes and put them on tapes to listen to. There is also a...
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...Executive summary Advertisement campaign in relation to neoclassical theory of consumer, understanding what consumer behavior in terms of their wants and needs, not forgetting their personality, attitude, perception, is not only important to marketers whose main goal is to make profit but also to the government and its various regulatory agencies and the whole society. Such a theory is usually based on a consumer image as one of the highest rational decision maker that widely seeks to maximize customer satisfaction by way of providing an informed and reasoned analysis of utility and value. The consumer behavior is known to create strong assumptions which are based on both computational and informational bases of consumer theory. Contents 1.0 Description of the advertisement 3 2.0 Market Group 4 3.0 Problem recognition 5 4.0 Neoclassical consumer theory 6 5.0 Application of neoclassical theory of consumer 8 6.0 Conclusion 9 7.0 Work cited 10 Consumer Behavior 1.0 Description of the advertisement The advertising campaign is for an airline company QANTAS that has its base in Australia. It has a picture of a young girl having fun while watching a movie using the toy movie machine. The airline is targeting plane travelers by promising to offer the best flight entertainment. This according to the airline will be able to have them enjoy their journey through entertainment and not be able to realize how long the journey is. The airline...
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...Introduction to Management Science, 10e (Taylor) Chapter 9 Multicriteria Decision Making 1) The different objectives in a goal programming problem are referred to as goals. Answer: TRUE Diff: 1 Page Ref: 400 Main Heading: Goal Programming Key words: goal programming 2) All goal constraints are inequalities that include deviational variables. Answer: FALSE Diff: 1 Page Ref: 400 Main Heading: Goal Programming Key words: goal constraints 3) A negative deviational variable is the amount by which a goal level is exceeded. Answer: FALSE Diff: 2 Page Ref: 400 Main Heading: Goal Programming Key words: goal constraints, deviational variable 4) At least one or both deviational variables in a goal constraint must equal 0. Answer: TRUE Diff: 2 Page Ref: 401 Main Heading: Goal Programming Key words: deviational variable, goal constraints 5) The objective function in a goal programming model seeks to minimize the deviation from goals in the order of the goal priorities. Answer: TRUE Diff: 2 Page Ref: 401 Main Heading: Goal Programming Key words: goal prog problem formulation, objective function for goal prog 6) In goal programming, terms are summed in the objective function in order to make consistent decisions. Answer: FALSE Diff: 2 Page Ref: 402 Main Heading: Goal Programming Key words: goal prog problem formulation, objective function for goal prog 7) Goal constraints can include all deviational variables. Answer:...
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...outside world. Your Possible Career Paths: ▪ Entrepreneur ▪ Investment Banker ▪ Management / Marketing Consultant ▪ Strategic Planner ▪ University / College President ▪ Internet Marketer ▪ Advertising Creative Director Interpretive Report report prepared for PHILLINE LOU ANDREA R. DELA TORRE 122 MARS STREET SUNRISE SUBDIVISION BAYANAN MUNTINLUPA CITY 09212379097 Saturday, August 16, 2014 Developed and Researched by: Academic Research and Assessment Group T H E S.C.O.P.E. P e r s o n a l i t y A s s e s s m e n t This report...
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...or formally, in a classroom or as part of career-based continuing education. Learning preference or style is unique to each individual, with no two learning exactly alike. There are numerous learning style assessments and models, VARK, an acronym for visual, aural/auditory, read/write, and kinaesthetic, being utilized for the purpose of this analysis. This analysis will provide a history of VARK, summarize the authors preferred learning styles, visual and read/write, compare the suggested strategies to the preferred strategies of the author and address how knowledge of learning styles can affect both the learner and teacher. VARK History VARK was developed by Neil Fleming, an educational developer, in 1987 to assist both teachers and students (“VARK”, 2015). While individuals’ learning preferences are multidimensional, including environmental, personality, and social aspects, the VARK model focuses on one area, “ways in which people like information to come to them and the ways in which they prefer to deliver their communication” (“VARK”, 2015). Fleming notes that the VARK was not designed to be diagnostic but to simply highlight one’s preferences and furthermore clarifies that preferences are different than strengths. Fleming also acknowledges the debate of whether awareness of one’s learning style is of any benefit and to this he argues, it is what is done after completing the assessment and applying the strategies that coincide with the specific learning style that makes...
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...A PROJECT REPORT ON “A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON THE CONSUMER’S PREFERENCE TOWARDS BRANDED JEWELLERY OVER NON BRANDED JEWELLERY IN MUMBAI.” SUBMITTED BY CHETAN N NAKTE (MARKETING) ROLL NO – B-07 Batch 2011 - 2013 UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF DR. AMIT AGGRAWAL CORE FACULTY - MARKETING UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI KOHINOOR BUSINESS SCHOOL, KURLA, MUMBAI. DECLARATION I hereby declare that the project report entitled “A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON THE CONSUMER’S PREFERENCE TOWARDS BRANDED JEWELLERY OVER NON BRANDED JEWELLERY IN MUMBAI” carried out at S.P.JEWELLERS is my work submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement for Degree of MASTER OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES (MMS), UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI from KOHINOOR BUSINESS SCHOOL, KURLA, MUMBAI and not submitted for the award of any degree, diploma, fellowship or any similar titles or prizes. Date: Signature: _______________ Place: Mumbai Student Name: ___________ CERTIFICATE This is to certify that the project entitled “A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON THE CONSUMER’S PREFERENCE TOWARDS BRANDED JEWELLERY OVER NON BRANDED JEWELLERY IN MUMBAI” is successfully completed by “Chetan N Nakte” during the second year of her course, in partial fulfillment of the Masters Degree in Management Studies, under the University of Mumbai, through KOHINOOR BUSINESS SCHOOL, Kurla, Mumbai-400070. Date: Place: Mumbai “Dr.Amit Aggrawal” ACKNOWLEDGEMENT It is my privilege...
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...JALANDHAR 2008-2011 ABSTRACT The research project was undertaken to study the consumer preferences towards 150 cc motorcycles in Ludhiana city. Consumer is said to be the pivot around which the entire business activities revolve and thus it is necessary to know that how individuals make decisions. Primary data were collected from a sample of 120 respondents which was taken from the service centers of the motorcycle outlets. The factors leading to need arousal for 150 cc motorcycles were identified as availability of better pick up and elegant appearance. The main source of information about the motorcycle has been the media both print and electronic. The decision to purchase a particular brand of motorcycle was mostly made by the customer himself. The important factors considered while purchasing a motorcycle were pick up, styling and fuel efficiency. Bajaj Pulsar provides highest satisfaction in case of pick up, comfort, after sales service and maintenance cost whereas TVS Apache provides highest satisfaction in case of appearance/design and mileage. CERTIFICATE Certified that this project report “STUDY OF CONSUMER PREFERENCES TOWARDS 150CC MOTORCYCLES IN LUDHIANA CITY” is the bonafide work of “ HARPINDER SINGH”. Who carried out the project work under my supervision. (Dr. MEENAL CHAUHAN) CONTENTS ...
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...VARK: A Guide to Learning Styles Analysis Paper Cynthia Miller Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V February 7, 2016 VARK: A Guide to Learning Styles Analysis Paper “The term “learning styles” speaks to the understanding that every student learns differently. Technically, an individual’s learning style refers to the preferential way in which the students absorbs, processes, comprehends, and retains information,” (Teach, 2016). There are many learning style assessments that have emerged. One in particular, the VARK learning model, developed by Neil Fleming and Colleen Mills, consists of four categories. VARK stands for Visual, Auditory/Aural, Read/Write, and Kinaesthetic. The VARK assessment and outcomes focus on the ways in which people like facts provided to them and the ways in which they prefer to deliver their communication. The questions are based on situations where there are choices and decisions about how that communication might take place, (Vark, 2016). The author of this paper, which we will call Subject C, completed the 16 question VARK exam. This paper will confabulate and analyze the results of this VARK questionnaire based upon the responses of Subject C. Summary and Analysis of Learning Style The following are the scores of Subject C upon completion of the VARK questionnaire: Visual 8, Auditory/Aural 8, Read/Write 12, Kinaesthetic 8. Read/Write earned the highest score of a 12, followed by a three way tie with Visual, Auditory/Aural, and Kinaesthetic...
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