Kitchie Vark Learning Styles

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. Each person learns differently in fact there are a variety of assessment tools to analyze how learners learn comparing with the educator’s perception of the best way for their student to learn, Kitchie, 2011). The tool used to analyze VARK learning style is a questionnaire of 16 questions for the learner to complete. Each of the four categories has a score, the highest being the learning style preference or preferences of the learning.

An aural learning preference means I prefer to learn by listening to lectures or discussing topics out loud which explains why once I found my results I researched online and found a YouTube video by The Little Genius Workshop, 2018, further clarifying my learning preferences. My second learning preference is kinesthetic or hands on learning by role playing, demonstrations or learning through actively processing concrete information, The Little Genius Workshop, 2018. Depending on what it is I am learning, I also scored as a multimodal learning preference which means I may use more than one or all four categories to learn something.

There are many factors involved when a person is learning a new subject or topic. By analyzing one’s learning preferences, it may help provide a way to self-reflect why one learns better one way or provide educators an insight to the variety of ways their students learn so teaching styles can be