How to Interpret Your Learning Style PDF
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Kathleen T. McWhorter
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This PDF provides a guide to interpreting different learning styles, specifically auditory, visual, applied, conceptual, spatial, verbal, social, independent, creative, and pragmatic. It details how to understand one's learning preferences and explains how understanding these differences helps in adapting to various teaching styles.
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After completing the questionnaire here is how to interpret your unique learning style… LECTURE 3 How to interpret your learning style Par...
After completing the questionnaire here is how to interpret your unique learning style… LECTURE 3 How to interpret your learning style Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Copyright © 2020, 2017, 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved Once you have completed table like the one on the right, you’ll be able to then Interpret Your Learning Style Copyright © 2020, 2017, 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved How to Interpret Your Learning Style 1 The questionnaire was divided into five parts; each part identifies one aspect of your learning style. These five aspects are explained below. PART ONE: AUDITORY OR VISUAL LEARNERS This score indicates the sensory mode you prefer when processing information. Auditory learners tend to learn more effectively through listening. Visual learners process information by seeing it in print or other visual modes, including films, pictures, or diagrams. Copyright © 2020, 2017, 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved How to Interpret Your Learning Style 2 PART TWO: APPLIED OR CONCEPTUAL LEARNERS This score describes the types of learning tasks and learning situations you prefer and find easiest to handle. If you are an applied learner, you prefer tasks that involve real objects and situations. Practical, real-life learning situations are ideal for you. If you are a conceptual learner, you prefer to work with language and ideas; practical applications are not necessary for understanding. Copyright © 2020, 2017, 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved How to Interpret Your Learning Style 3 PART THREE: SPATIAL OR VERBAL LEARNERS This score reveals your ability to work with spatial relationships. Spatial learners are able to visualize, or mentally see, how things work or how they are positioned in space. Their strengths may include drawing, assembling things, or repairing. Verbal learners tend to rely on verbal or language skills, rather than skills in positioning things in space. Copyright © 2020, 2017, 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved How to Interpret Your Learning Style 4 PART FOUR: SOCIAL OR INDEPENDENT LEARNERS This score reveals your preferred level of interaction with other people in the learning process. If you are a social learner, you prefer to work with others— both peers and instructors—closely and directly. You tend to be people oriented and to enjoy personal interaction. If you are an independent learner, you prefer to work and study alone. You tend to be self-directed or self-motivated and often are goal oriented. Copyright © 2020, 2017, 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved How to Interpret Your Learning Style 5 PART FIVE: CREATIVE OR PRAGMATIC LEARNERS This score describes the approach you prefer to take toward learning tasks. Creative learners are imaginative and innovative. They prefer to learn through discovery or experimentation. They are comfortable taking risks and following hunches. Pragmatic learners are practical, logical, and systematic. They seek order and are comfortable following rules. Copyright © 2020, 2017, 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved Compare Learning & Teaching Styles See your one-page PDF resource on Moodle with the file name shown below to revise this matching of styles in more detail for yourself: “Comparing Your Learning Styles to Your Professor's Teaching Style” Copyright © 2020, 2017, 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved How to Match Your Style with Professors Copyright © 2020, 2017, 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved