jueves, marzo 22, 2007
Learning Style:
1. Reflective Learner - strong preference
- Reflective learners prefer to understand the information best by thinking it quietly at first.
- Usual response "Let's think it through first."
- Prefers working alone
2. Sensing Learner - moderate preference
- Sensing learners tend to like learning facts.
- Often like solving problems well-established methods & dislike complications and surprises.
- Tend to be patient with details and good at memorizing facts and doing hands-on (laboratory) work
- Tend to be more practical & careful
- Does not like courses that have no apparent connection to the real world
3. Visual-Verbal Learner - well-balanced
- Visual learners remember best what they see -- pictures, diagrams, flow charts, time lines, films & demonstrations. Verbal learners get more out of words -- written & spoken explanations.
- Everyone learns more when information is presented both visually & verbally
- Good learners are capable of processing information presented either visually or verbally.
4. Sequential Learning - moderate preference
- Sequential learners tend to gain understanding in linear steps, with each step following logically from the previous one.
- Tend to follow logical stepwise paths in finding solutions.
- May not fully understand the material but they can do something with it since the pieces they have absorbed are logically connected
- May know a lot about specific aspects of a subject but may have trouble relating them to different aspects of the same subject or to different subjects.