...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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...Vark Analysis Juli Thompson Grand Canyon University Family Centered Health Promotion NRS-429V February 28, 2015 Vark Analysis This paper will discuss and compare the different learning styles of the VARK Questionnaire. It will also address the preferred and suggested learning styles for this writer and if knowing specific learning styles affect the perception of how teaching and learning are delivered. The Vark Questionnaire was developed by Neil Fleming in 1987 to discern why some students were able to comprehend and retain information while others were not (VARK Learn Limited [VARK], 2015). This gave way to the question, does learning preference of an individual affect the way information is received and understood? This lead to the development of the VARK Questionnaire so students and teachers alike could determine their own learning style preferences. VARK is an acronym for visual, aural, read/write, and kinesthetic learning types, or a combination of the four types known as multimodal (VARK, 2015). Finding one’s own learning preference depends on the answers given to various questions on how one would like to receive and give information, the answers are then calculated to give a percentage to each of the four categories to determine either a single or multimodal learning preference. Each learning style can incorporate different strategies to help facilitate learning and comprehension. For example: Visual learners can use charts and graphs, aural learners can...
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...VARK Analysis Paper Grand Canyon University Family Centered Health Promotion March 1, 2015 VARK Analysis Paper Every Human Being is created differently and each one has their own unique way of learning and understanding information. Learning style is different for all individuals. Charles Bonwell and Neil Fleming introduced VARK model to categorize learning styles for everyone. VARK stands for Visual, Aural, Read/Write and Kinesthetic. People use different styles to learn in different situations depending on the subjects they are learning. Most people use a combination of learning style called multimodal style of learning. VARK provides people with an indication of their learning preference. There are seminars and workshops to develop skills and improve learning. This paper explains the different types of learning styles and how it can help and influence a person’s learning and understanding. My Learning Preferences My learning preference is Multimodal way of learning. In fact 60% of people prefer this way of learning style and it is one of the most used way of learning styles .while others can effectively learn using any single one of the multiple preferences. Multimodal style learning uses two or more strong preferences. This style of learning or teaching makes the learner easy to understand and capture the attention easier and make it interesting to learn. Also multimodal style can help develop better ability to learn and speed up the understanding. Strategies...
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...A VARK Questionnaire Analysis of an Online Nursing Student Zackary S. Stringer, RN Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V Family Centered Health Promotion November 17th, 2013 A VARK Questionnaire Analysis of an Online Nursing Student When entering the realm of online education, one must step back and ask themselves if they are truly able to step away from traditional brick-and-mortar school systems and succeed in an online learning community. One way to assess whether or not this is a possibility is through the VARK questionnaire. The VARK questionnaire was developed by Fleming and Mills in 1992 in an attempt to help students better understand the modalities in which they learn best. The questionnaire is a series of questions that present real life situations relating to learning new skills or teaching new skills to others. The four answer choices then apply to one of the four VARK modalities: visual, aural, read/write, and kinesthetic. Those taking the VARK questionnaire are also given the opportunity to select more than one response if they feel that more than one answer applies to them. After submitting the responses, the scores for the four modalities are revealed, and then a dominant modality is given. As well, someone could be considered multimodal if they scored highly in more than one modality (Sinclaire, 2012). In the exercise that will be discussed, a twenty year old online nursing student who attended a nursing diploma school currently enrolled in a nursing diploma...
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...VARK Analysis Paper Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V August 11, 2013 VARK Analysis paper VARK analysis is a method through which a person identifies his favored method of learning. VARK is the acronym for Visual, Aural, Read/write, and Kinesthetic. In this VARK method there is a questionnaire which a person has to complete in order to determine his/her favored learning method. The writer of this paper has completed the questionnaire and the results showed that she prefers multimodal style of learning. The multimodal learners may be called as having a universal style as 60% of any given population has this learning style (Fleming, 2011a). This paper gives the brief description of the writers learning style, lists writers preferred learning strategies, compares writer’s preferred learning strategies to the identified strategies and evaluate any change the writer need to make in the learning habits to increase learning potentiality. Summary of the preferred Learning Style This part of the paper discuses the writer’s preferred learning style which is multimodal. The multimodal learning means that the writer has multiple choices of learning. A research shows that multimodal preferences learners dominate for all populations and it is evidently the most used set of preferences when making decisions about learning (Fleming, 2011b). The multimodal consists of all the four learning methods: visual, aural, read/write, and kinesthetic...
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...VARK Analysis Paper Family Centered Health Promotion VARK Analysis Paper VARK is a commonly used learning style that describes the way people take in information, store, process and recall what they have learned. Since people are individuals, they have their own type of learning. VARK is an ACRONYM that stands for (Visual, Aural, Read/Write and Kinesthetic). The purpose of this paper is to analyze, describe and list my preferred learning styles and strategies using the VARK analysis. As this assignment demands, I completed the VARK questionnaire and the results I obtained are listed below. This was my first time filling out the VARK questionnaire and it was an eye opening exercise for me. It reminded me of what I always suspected of my learning style but did not have any scientific evidence to back my suspicions until now. My scores are as follows Visual 2 Aural 6 Read/Write 15 Kinesthetic 10 The above results of my VARK analysis showed that I fall with in the multimodal study preference. Multimodal is a combination or choice of two or more strategies. About 60 % of the people have the multimodal study strategy. This means that these types of people have multiple strong points in areas of reading, writing, aural and kinesthetic strategies. The people that fall within the multimodal study strategy have the ability to meticulously gather information and multitask in their daily lives. The highest score I obtained is the Read/Write learning style with a score of 15. I...
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...VARK Analysis Rhonda Chrestman Grand Canyon University Family Centered Health Promotion NRS-429V-0191 Barbara Trabelsi November 17, 2013 VARK Analysis VARK is an instructional preference model of a learning styles inventory that differentiates students by the way in which they best acquire information (Marcy, 2001, para. 3). Neil D. Fleming developed the VARK questionnaire in1987 to help students become better learners and to improve the way teachers teach and develop their courses. VARK is about modality preference or the preferences that we each have for taking in and expressing learning (Fleming, n.d., para. 5). VARK is an acronym for visual, aural, read/write, and kinesthetic preference modalities. It is made up of a questionnaire that determines a person’s sensory modality preferences (Marcy, 2001, para. 4). A student may have a preference for one modality or be multimodal. A learner’s preferences do not necessarily equal what they consider to be their strengths (Marcy, 2001, para. 4). The VARK questionnaire was easy to take, informative and gave strategies to improve study habits and increase learning. After taking the questionnaire the results were calculated and came out as follows: aural-ten; kinesthetic-four; read/write-three; visual-one. Aural (or hearing) was the learning preference that was preferred. After reading about the various preferences and their study strategies the results were determined to be accurate. Aural learners should take in...
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...VARK Analysis Paper Violet Aigbe GCU Family Centered Health Promotion NRS-429V Kimberly Hare August 8, 2014 VARK Analysis Paper VARK stand for Visual, Aural, Reading/Writing and Kinesthetic. VARK Score; V=5, A= 10, R/W= 10, K=7, and learning preference is Multimodal. Neil D. Fleming (2011) developed this method to study how different individuals learn and retain information. With this method, many people are now able to know their preferred method of learning, understand what they have been taught and are able to put to practice that which they have learned. The VARK tool helps an individual to compare their preferred learning style to their own learning preference, this will help them understand and assimilate what they are being taught which will eventually facilitate their learning process. Acquiring knowledge or skill is a continued or never-ending process, so being able to identify learning style is an important asset that will propel an individual to great and successful learning experience. The goal of this paper therefore is to inform readers of the learning styles, preferred learning strategy of the writer and to compare these with the identified strategies, then appraise how the writer’s awareness of learning attributes influences the teaching and learning. Writer’s Preferred Learning Style The collection of information, processing it, retaining it and applying it sums up a learning style. The writer of this paper falls into the multimodal group of...
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...VARK Analysis Jose Soco Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V Family-Centered Health Promotion November 10, 2015 VARK Analysis Each individual learns or teaches subjects in their own unique way. VARK is a questionnaire that guides one’s learning and teaching style by suggesting the strategies to use (Introduction to VARK | VARK, n.d.). It consists of 16 questions that will show if an individual learns or educates more efficiently by (V)isual (i.e. pictures, videos, charts/graphs, diagrams, symbols), (A)ural (i.e. listening to lectures/tutorials, discussing topics with others/self), (R)ead/write (i.e. writing notes/essays, reading books/manuals) or (K)inesthetic/tactile (i.e. hands-on experience, field trips, experiments) sensory mode (Introduction to VARK | VARK, n.d.). If a modality isn’t obvious, such a person falls in the category of multimodal. After answering the questionnaire, the learning preference that came up was multimodal style. Multimodal Style When an individual, such as myself, is a multimodal learner, not one single learning modality stands out, rather, the individual employs strategies from all four modalities. There are two types of multimodal learners (Introduction to VARK | VARK, n.d.). Type one uses strategies depending on the situation (Introduction to VARK | VARK, n.d.). For example, “if learning music, auditory learning styles would be preferable; if learning art, visual; if learning to build something, tactile.” (What Is Your Learning Style? Visual...
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...VARK Analysis Abstract The VARK Learning Styles was conducted by MS. X to describe her learning style and preferred learning strategies. The following will compare the learning strategies to the preferred learning style. It notes changes that need to be made to her study habits. Finally, it summarizes an analysis of the assessment. Learning Strategies and Styles There are four main kinds of learning strategies according to the VARK learning style and they are: visual, aural, reading, and kinesthetic. After completing a questionnaire on the VARK learning website, one is able to know the style in which they learn best and understand in which manner they can grasp what is being taught to them. Consider, for example, an artist and a carpenter. An artist paints and a carpenter is someone who builds wooden structures. Each one is skilled in his own profession, but suppose they both decide to take on each other’s tasks. It would take them longer to produce a finished work and the quality might not be as great as it would have been had they stuck to their own talents. Another possibility is also that the carpenter is capable of performing the work of the artist. In chosen plan, it might be both the talents to make one product. Learning styles may be very much similar. If you know where you are strong you can always nurture and nourish your learning capabilities and the power of comprehending the information given to you, helping you to improve your grades. Questionnaire Results ...
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...Running head: VARK ANALYSIS VARK Analysis Christine Feisthamel Grand Canyon University Family Centered Health Promotion NRS429v Sue Fickle FNP-C MSN May 19, 2012 VARK Analysis The VSRK analysis is a modality predilection or the process that an individual uses to take in information and assimilate it into learning. Each person has preferences in the way that information is learned. Some may need to have visual materials, while others prefer written, auditory, or kinesthetic and of course there are a number that will be multimodal and will require a combination of learning styles (Baykan & Nacar, 2007). By reviewing the different learning styles, students can determine how they learn best. In the read-write profile, the individual would prefer reading the material from books and text. This type of learner is very much a list writer. The uses of textbooks, lecture notes and/or handouts are greatly incorporated into the read-write learning style (Dobson, 2010). This student finds dictionaries, glossaries, appendixes and definitions very helpful. The student will find that writing out words and reading class notes repeatedly or rewriting ideas and information into new words will help the pupil embrace the information. Any charts, grafts, or diagrams should be reformatted into statements or word. A review of the visual learning style indicates that this person likes pictures, posters and slides. They integrate notes into flow charts and grafts. The use of highlighters...
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...VARK Analysis and Learning Style Grand Canyon University NRS 429V VARK Analysis and Learning 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...
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...VARK Analysis Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V Family-Centered Health Promotion September 21, 2012 L earning is only complete when an individual can reproduce the knowledge gained from educational institutions, self-study and observance. Retention of knowledge depends on the way students have gained the knowledge; learning style varies from person to person. One method that may be highly appealing to a particular student may not be appealing to another student. So learning style is a very subjective matter and there are different ways to categorize learning styles, this paper focus on VARK learning analysis quiz and learning styles as well as the implication of understanding an individual’s learning style. VARK abbreviation stands for visual, aural, read/write, and kinesthetic. VARK model is one of the most prevalent learning style analyzing tools. Neil Fleming developed it in 1987, to help students and others learn more about their individual learning preferences (Fleming & Mills, 2011). This methodology was the first organized arrangement of questions with ideal responses that could be used to identify students, teachers, and employers learning styles. Under Neil Fleming’s model, learners are identified according to their preferred learning style that are visual learning (images, films, pictorial representation), auditory learning (audio tapes, conversation, speeches), reading and writing (taking notes, manuals, creating list), or kinesthetic learning...
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...VARK Analysis Paper Family Centered Health Promotion VARK Analysis Paper There are a array of different learning styles, each and every person will learn differently depending on how their brain works and there life style of learning. Learning is a goal-directed act and all human beings and living creatures have different learning behaviors and styles. On the other hand, the process of learning is done over a progression of time and usually includes a learning curve that each person will follow. One familiar assessment used to create a person's learning style is the VARK Analysis (Fleming, 2011). VARK is an phrase for visual, auditory, reading/writing, and kinesthetic learners. This determination is done online and clusters information on how individuals answer a sequence of questions. Educators and students alike will use this tool become better at teaching and the learning process as a whole. At the conclusion of the VARK questionnaire, a learning type based on four categories that will give your preferred learning type. This will give the individual a beginning foundation on how he/she best learns and retains information. This paper will compare Betty's learning behaviors based from the results of VARK Analysis (Fleming, 2011). VARK Learning Styles The Vark Analysis is separated by four categories: visual, aural, reading/writing and kinesthetic. According to VARK, the visual learner uses pictures and concept maps. These learners retain information best...
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...Running head: VARK ANALYSIS VARK Analysis Brenda Schmitt GCU Family Centered Health Promotion NRS 429v Michelle Silvers, MS, RN, CEN February 11, 2012 VARK Analysis Having completed the VARK learning assessment questionnaire, I was not surprised to see that I represented the “Multimodal” learning style. It has been about twenty-five years since I’ve been in school and it is interesting to note that my learning style has remained the same. My strongest strategy is the Read/Write category, closely followed by the Kinesthetic, Aural and lastly, Visual. (Fleming & Bonwell, 2011, p. 1) The Multimodal learning style has its positive and negative elements. 60% of students fit this category. With a Multimodal style, the student has several methods of learning to choose from. The student can switch from one to the other as the teacher’s teaching method changes. If there is a lecture, the Aural or listening style is used. By taking notes, the Read/Write modality is chosen. If there is a lab involved with the class then a Visual and Kinesthetic or “hands on” mode is preferred. Within the Multimodal approach, there are also subcategories. One group of Multimodal learners chooses the learning modality necessary for each situation, switching gears depending on the assignment. They choose the one best mode that fits the scenario. “The Context Specific Group tends to have a lower total score, somewhere between 13 and 26.” (Fleming, 2011, p. 1) Then, there are those who are...
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