5. What is Your Learning Style.pdf

WHAT’S YOUR LEARNING STYLE? Learning to learn is a basic managerial skill. Professor David Kolb of M.I.T says: “ In a world where the rate of change is increasing every year, in a time when few men will end their careers in the same jobs or even same occupations that they...

WHAT’S YOUR LEARNING STYLE? Learning to learn is a basic managerial skill. Professor David Kolb of M.I.T says: “ In a world where the rate of change is increasing every year, in a time when few men will end their careers in the same jobs or even same occupations that they started in, the ability to learn seems an important, if not the most important skill. “ Kolb has furthermore developed a method of letting you see your learning method. Instructions There are ten sets of four words listed below. Rank order each set of four words, assigning a 4 to the word which best characterizes your learning style, a 3 to the word which next best characterizes your learning style, a 2 to the next most characteristic word , and a 1 to the word which is least characteristic of you as a learner. Be sure to assign a different rank number to each to the four words in each set. Do not make ties. 1 Involved Tentative Discriminating Practical 2 Receptive Impartial Analytical Relevant 3 Feeling Watching Thinking Doing 4 Accepting Aware Evaluative Risk-taker 5 Intuitive Questioning Logical Productive 6 Concrete Observing Abstract Active 7 Present-oriented Reflecting Future-oriented Pragmatic 8 open to new experience Perceptive Intelligent Competent 9 Experience Observation Conceptualization experimentation 10 Intense Reserved Rational Responsible CE RO AC AE _____________________________________ Source: David A. Kolb, Irwin M. Rubin, James M. Mclntyre, Organizational Psychology; An Experiential Approach (Englewood Clifis (N.J), New Jersey, Prentice-Hall, 1971