What learning style am I?
Learning Styles Project
Kimberly Schutte
Everyone learns differently which makes learning and teaching fun and sometimes challenging. In order to determine what learning style I was, I used a learning style inventory test called the Index of Learning Styles Questionnaire. This questionnaire was developed by two North Carolina State professors. The instrument consisted of forty-four multiple choice questions where you had to answer with a choice a or a choice b. The responses made by these forty four questions were used to evaluate the type of learning style of those individuals completing the questionnaire. This questionnaire was found online at the following URL: http://www.engr.ncsu.edu/learningstyles/ilsweb.html.
After completing my learning styles questionnaire, a set of results was presented to me. The results consisted of four different scales with two different styles on each side of the scale. The numbers of the scales represented how much of a preference that you had toward that learning style based on the answers one gave in the questionnaire. The first scale was for active versus reflective learners. My answers resulted in a value of 5 on the active side of the scale. This means I have a moderate preference towards the type of learning that is active. The next scale was sensing versus intuitive learners. This time I scored a 7 on the sensing side of the scale, again stating that I had a moderate preference for this type of learning. The third scale was testing for visual versus verbal learners. For this scale, I scored a one on the verbal side of the scale. This time this means that I had a more fairly well-balanced preference for both types of learning on the scale. Finally, the fourth scale, testing sequential versus global learning, resulted with a score of 3 on the sequential part of the scale. This again defined that I had a fairly well-balanced preference for both types of learning.
Once completing this assessment and reading over my results, I found that this assessment did a fairly good job and assessing my type of learning as well as was able to supply new information to me about my own learning style. I have always found myself to be have a number of learning styles and not just set on one type so when these numbers of the scales were relatively low meaning that I had a fairly well-balanced preference towards both types of learning styles of the scale, I did find that I was indeed a flexible and variable learner. However, I did find that I was higher on the scale for verbal learning than visual which was something surprising to me because I felt like I was more a visual than verbal. However, I feel that seeing these results shows that I can learn in a variety of styles which is helpful for my learning.
Understanding different learning styles and seeing my own learning styles questionnaire results has allowed me to see how important these are when implementing lessons in the classroom. As a future teacher and a current student as well, I can see that incorporating a variety of types of activities and types of learning is important in the classroom because like myself, I will have a variety of different students coming from different backgrounds and perspectives providing me with a wide variety of different types of learners. When developing lessons, I find that I would want to do a variety of things from lecturing to providing visual aids as well as allow for individual work as well as group collaborative activities. Besides just doing simple writing, reading, and at desk work, I would also like to have some active fun activities to go along with my lesson in order to get students active in their learning as well. This will allow for students to learn facts and concepts and well as use these facts and concepts to make relationships between different aspects of the lesson.
It is often hard to sway away from one’s personal perspective, however, I have found from doing my own personal learning styles questionnaire and learning more about myself as a learner that there are a wide variety of learning styles out there making every student unique in their learning. Thus, as a teacher, one must keep this in consideration in order to allow for flexibility in lessons and well as diversity in teaching.
Learning Styles Project
Kimberly Schutte
Everyone learns differently which makes learning and teaching fun and sometimes challenging. In order to determine what learning style I was, I used a learning style inventory test called the Index of Learning Styles Questionnaire. This questionnaire was developed by two North Carolina State professors. The instrument consisted of forty-four multiple choice questions where you had to answer with a choice a or a choice b. The responses made by these forty four questions were used to evaluate the type of learning style of those individuals completing the questionnaire. This questionnaire was found online at the following URL: http://www.engr.ncsu.edu/learningstyles/ilsweb.html.
After completing my learning styles questionnaire, a set of results was presented to me. The results consisted of four different scales with two different styles on each side of the scale. The numbers of the scales represented how much of a preference that you had toward that learning style based on the answers one gave in the questionnaire. The first scale was for active versus reflective learners. My answers resulted in a value of 5 on the active side of the scale. This means I have a moderate preference towards the type of learning that is active. The next scale was sensing versus intuitive learners. This time I scored a 7 on the sensing side of the scale, again stating that I had a moderate preference for this type of learning. The third scale was testing for visual versus verbal learners. For this scale, I scored a one on the verbal side of the scale. This time this means that I had a more fairly well-balanced preference for both types of learning on the scale. Finally, the fourth scale, testing sequential versus global learning, resulted with a score of 3 on the sequential part of the scale. This again defined that I had a fairly well-balanced preference for both types of learning.
Once completing this assessment and reading over my results, I found that this assessment did a fairly good job and assessing my type of learning as well as was able to supply new information to me about my own learning style. I have always found myself to be have a number of learning styles and not just set on one type so when these numbers of the scales were relatively low meaning that I had a fairly well-balanced preference towards both types of learning styles of the scale, I did find that I was indeed a flexible and variable learner. However, I did find that I was higher on the scale for verbal learning than visual which was something surprising to me because I felt like I was more a visual than verbal. However, I feel that seeing these results shows that I can learn in a variety of styles which is helpful for my learning.
Understanding different learning styles and seeing my own learning styles questionnaire results has allowed me to see how important these are when implementing lessons in the classroom. As a future teacher and a current student as well, I can see that incorporating a variety of types of activities and types of learning is important in the classroom because like myself, I will have a variety of different students coming from different backgrounds and perspectives providing me with a wide variety of different types of learners. When developing lessons, I find that I would want to do a variety of things from lecturing to providing visual aids as well as allow for individual work as well as group collaborative activities. Besides just doing simple writing, reading, and at desk work, I would also like to have some active fun activities to go along with my lesson in order to get students active in their learning as well. This will allow for students to learn facts and concepts and well as use these facts and concepts to make relationships between different aspects of the lesson.
It is often hard to sway away from one’s personal perspective, however, I have found from doing my own personal learning styles questionnaire and learning more about myself as a learner that there are a wide variety of learning styles out there making every student unique in their learning. Thus, as a teacher, one must keep this in consideration in order to allow for flexibility in lessons and well as diversity in teaching.
