Every human being in this world is unique and each individual has different ways in which they learn. Learning styles have been formulated over the years to help us recognize the way we approach learning and methods we use to gain knowledge. It is an individual's distinctive approach to learning based on strengths, weaknesses, and preference with a mixture of various styles. In this essay, we will take a look at different learning styles and how they can be implemented and integrated in the accounting profession. To determine the best way I learn, I carried out two different learning styles questionnaires online. One may find that they are not always categorised in a specific type rather they may have more than one learning preference. Firstly, the most commonly used Neil Fleming’s VARK model. Fleming believes that there are four different types of learner: Visual, Auditory, Reading/writing and Kinesthetic learners. The second model I tried out was Soloman-Felder Learning Styles and Strategies. The two tests that I have done have pretty much accurately described what kind of learner I am. VARK model states that my dominant learning style is Kinesthetic. Kinesthetic learners learn by doing things physically with hands on experience rather than listening to someone else. I tend to move around a lot when remembering or revising for an exam which helps me express a thought or understand a subject through bodily movement. My other style is Linguistic and Spatial Visual learning. It is easier for me to grasp the meaning of things by visually understanding a concept with the help of graphs, pictures, videos, etc or taking notes as I learn. My least preferred style was Auditory. This is fairly true as I ne... ... middle of paper ... ..., I believe I can be a good accountant as long as I improve on my weaknesses and master my strengths. References: - • Chapman, A. 2009. Free learning styles test. Leicester: Businessball.com. Available from : http://www.businessballs.com/vaklearningstylestest.htm [Accessed 29th November 2010] • Clark, D. 2008. Visual, Auditory and Kinesthetic Learning styles (VAK). Available from : http://nwlink.com/~donclark/hrd/styles/vakt.html [ Accessed 29th November 2010] • McCarthy, M. 2010. Experiential Learning Theory-From Theory to Practice. Orland. Available from http://www.gimi.us/CLUTE_INSTITUTE/ORLANDO_2010/Article%20111.pdf [Accessed 2nd December 2010] • Novin, A., Arjomand, L. and Jourdan, L. Teaching & Learning, Fall 2003, Volume 18, Number 1, pp. 24-31. Available from : http://www.und.nodak.edu/dept/ehd/journal/Fall2003/novin.pdf [ Accessed 2nd December
According to the learning styles theory there are three main learning styles. The first is visual. This is a student who prefers to see the information through notes, pictures, or demonstration. The second is auditory. This type of learner prefers to hear the information through lecture or recordings. The third is kinesthetic. A kinesthetic learner prefers to learn information through practical exercises and physically performing the task being taught. The learning styles theory is that if you teach a student by using their preferred learning ...
According to the textbook, “learning styles refer to the ways in which and conditions under which learners most efficiently and most effectively perceive, process, store , and recall what they are attempting to learn” (p.122). People have different learning style depending on how each person learn best based on interest and situation they are under. I am personally more visual and sensory in practical world than the theoretical matter. However, I can manage to learn both ways depending on what kind of information I am gaining and how it is presented to me. I have to be ready to learn and should be somehow interested on the information I am about to receive or in the process of receiving. Which means that I am more interested in auditory, sensory, and visionary leaning presentation approaches. I do understand and remember things more by listening, sensing, and observing than a
According to the VARK questionnaire, I possess a multimodal learning style. Being a multimodal learner is advantageous, as it allows the learner to adapt their style to each learning situation (Robertson, Smellie, Wilson, & Cox, 2011). The results further displayed that I am primarily a kinesthetic, but also a visual learner. These two distinct learning styles have much in common with cognitivist and constructivist learning theories.
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Did you find it easier to understand a thing by reading or hear it from someone else or do your understand better by looking at the picture ? Some people may find it even harder to read a map. Things may difficulty for some peoples but others learn, it is because everyone learns in different ways. How people interprets or understand the information depends on how their learning style. Learning style may vary depending on factor that influence . While learning style has been defined as the way people learn, or how one interprets information. The most common learning style is the Visual, Auditory, Read/Write, and Kinaesthetic. Most of us may have some idea of how we learn better, but often we surprise to find out what our predominant learning style. In 1987 Neil D. Fleming, an experienced educator developed the VARK learning style as an effort to help students learn better. VARK contains 16 question that help identify a person's learning style. For some students they may have a preference for one type of learning, but also
Learning styles, as defined by Kitchie (2011), are ways learners learn factoring in cognitive and physiological responses to their own learning environment. One learning style highlighted in this course is the VARK learning style which looks at how a learner receives information and then, expresses that information. According to Kitchie (2011) the VARK learning style breaks learning preferences into four categories: visual, aural or oral, read/write, and kinesthetic or action learning.
Throughout this chapter I have learned that there are several different learning styles, each relating to an individual’s learning ability. The Learning Styles Charts helps to determine an individual’s learning style. This chart measures three learning styles: visual learner (sees to learn), the auditory learner (hears to learn), and the kinaesthetic learner (moves to learn). An auditory learner prefers to learn or learns best by listening. This type of learner will be best able to perform a new task after listening to the instructions. The visual learner learns more easily by reading. All types of visual materials, pictures, symbols, colours, shapes text etc. make it easier for this type of learner to learn. The kinaesthetic – tactile learner likes the physical movement and learns best with the hands on approach (www.mytrainingbc.ca). After I completed some Learning Styles questionnaires I was categorized as having a mild preference towards the visual learning style. I would tend to agree with this assessment as I am a person who loves to read. I will always read the instructions
Sixteen statements evaluate a person’s learning styles in four main categories; visual, aural, reading and kinesthetic, the learner selects multiple answers from choice A, B, C or D (Fleming, 2012). According to the VARK questionnaire, individuals with a preference in visual style tend to learn mostly through visualization, and often prefer and learns best from visual displays (Fleming, 2012). As indicated by Fleming, 2012, auditory learners, on the other hand, learn best from attending or listening to lectures, speeches, and oral sessions, and relies on the instructor to give a verbal explanation instead of reading about it. Another prefer learning style of students is kinesthetic learning style, where individuals prefer to carry out a physical activity, rather than listening to a lecture or merely watching a demonstration (Marek,
The learning style I am categorized according to VARK is the Kinesthetic learning style. In this particular learning style in order to internalize information one has to use all their senses like the sense of sight, touch and feeling, taste by the taste buds, smell and hearing. The Kinesthetic learners even like to work in the laboratories doing experiments, like field trips love tours and prefer receiving examples of different kinds including principles of laws and like real –life examples. These learners believe in applications and like hands on experiences and approaches to learn new concepts and information. They also enjoy the trial and error methods to come to conclusions and also like collection of rock types, plants, shells, flowers, grasses and other interesting things in the nature. They are also interested in exhibitions of different kinds, samples of products and photographs of information to be learned. Kinesthetic learners also use recipes, find solutions to problems and like to refer to previous exam papers. They have a good memory to remember real life experiences and real things that happened. They also learn from talking about their notes with another kinesthetic person by using pictures, photographs and illustrate their ideas. They recollect experiments and field trips and the outcome of all these learning experiences enable them to perform well in tests, assignments and also in examinations.
Ever been sitting in on a lecture, and being the only one in class to not understand? Different people learn differently; this is called our own personalized learning styles. When some take notes to memorize, other may create a poster or some other form of art, and it just clicks. My learning style is visual, others may be more in tune to haptic, or auditory ways of learning. To better define/examine the different styles, I will compare and contrast my own with that of haptic individuals in multiple examples.
When beginning to reflect upon my previous learning experience a quote came into my mind "Tell me and I forget, show me and I remember, involve me and I understand", John Gay (no date). This has always been the way that I work, being very active and hands on when learning, I figit and get distracted easily. I move my hands around when I am deep in conversation and love to get involved, Therefore it was no surprise to me after doing the VAK test (Fleming 1992; Smith 1996) that my results displayed that I am a kinaesthetic learner (whom of which is said to exhibit all of these learning behaviourisms above). One of the many Learning style tests, The VAK models determines learning as Visual, Auditory or Kinaesthetic. An Individuals results are
In this essay I will be describing various types of learning styles and stating the advantages and disadvantages of these learning styles. I will also inform you of the most commonly used method of finding out your own learning style, and I will inform you of the man who made this method. Finally, I will write about my own preferred learning styles and the strengths and weaknesses of the different learning styles.
Everyone has different learning styles. Learning styles are important because they help you better understand materials in classes. They are there to guide you and become a better student. Learning styles help you better grasp the material and better process it through your brain. When learning you want to do what is most beneficial for you. That is why there is many different learning styles to suit every person. There is three different types of learning styles categorized. The first learning style is auditory. Auditory is meant for individuals that enjoy asking questions, talking and listening, as well as like to read out loud. Visual learners are more interested in charts, graphs, neat surroundings, seeing rather than hearing, and are pictured to be timid as they read to themselves rather than out loud. Finally there is the kinesthetic learning style. Kinesthetic is to touch, to feel, and usually learn by doing.
In discovering my type of learning preference, I found some interesting things about the VARK learning styles. Because we are all different, we process our
Each person has his or her own style of learning. Learning styles include visual, auditory, and kinesthetic. In the questionnaire, I learned that I am very much a visual learner. This reflection will show what I have learned about my unique learning style and how understanding learning styles of the children I teach will be helpful as I become a teacher.