OK, I think we have all commented on the LNA analysis. There didn’t seem to be too much wrong with it and I think we all agreed it is a useful tool. I hope you have all visited each other’s blogs to see what others had to say about it. I have made some changes to the original template on the wiki as a result. Once you have tried it with your students you might have more comments, so post them here if you do.
For instructions on assignment no.3 follow this link to your next activity. You will need a little more time for this activity. I have given you two links – one for the VARK learning styles questionnaire and one for the Felder-Silverman model (click on the blue [1] and [2]. You need to visit both these links and write in your blogs about one preferred style from each. Then, find out what your preferred learning style is from one or both models and comment on the results in your blog. Is it what you expected? How much weight would you place on these results? How would you use these results to improve your study techniques?
Whereabouts can I find a printer friendly version of this form?
Sorry, ignore me, I found it under the search box to the left, “Print as PDF”.
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I completed this assignment and unlike Mark, found the second one more akin to my style of learning. I’ve done the Vark test before , or something like it and I usually come out as a aural learner and did so again. However I think the Fielder learning styles are quite different and for me more easily understandable….probably because I am a moderate intuitive thinker. What I wasn’t sure about is that in my nursing I practice a lot of reflective thinking and yet I came out a strong active learner. I wonder how you can be an active and yet intutitive learner…seems quite an annonimoly to me. Also with this I am fairly even with verbal and viusal learning which I agree with and also agree that I am a moderate sequential rather than global thinker. draft by Laurie 12:48:00 PM Delete
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My results for the VARK test were interesting because they were very different from the results I got from the same test earlier in the year.
The first VARK test put me as an aural / visual learner whereas the VARK test I have just taken put me as a multimodal learner. My second highest score was for a kinaesthetic style of learning, something I scored very low in the first time I sat this test. Does this show inconsistencies in the test or that my learning style has changed over the year (vet nursing is a fairly kinaesthetic course)?
I felt that the Fielder learning styles provided more relevant and comprehensive questions and the answers it gave seemed to me to be closer to what I am.
The style of questioning reminded me of the Kiersey Temperament Sorter used in analysis of personality types which cross references its questions so that the results are based on answers from more than one question. To me this seems more likely to give an accurate analysis of learning styles.
Hi Cuinna, Laurie and others,
Posting your comments here is quite a good idea, I might ask everyone to do this in future.
I hope you gained something useful for yourselves from doing these questionnaires. More importantly I suppose I think they would give you quite a bit of insight into the students you are tutoring. Either one would be worth doing during a session with your student. Do you agree?
I would like to see a continuation of the topic