Chapter 4

1. Learning Styles
Student Success Center
Gannon University
Fall 2014

2. VARK Learning Style
• How learners prefer to use their
senses (hearing, seeing, writing,
reading and experiencing)
• V - visual
• A - aural
• R – read/write
• K - kinesthetic

3. Complete Learning Styles
Handout

4. Learning style
• Visual – use of sight
– Charts, graphs, rewrite notes, pictures
– Highlight or underline
– Visualize concepts and ideas
• Symbols, charts, graphs
– Picture spelling words
– Test yourself by looking at main ideas
and write the details or answers

5. Learning style
• Auditory – use of hearing
– Sit in the front of class
– Discussion groups – hear ideas and concepts
– Repeats information out loud
– Put notes on tape
– Look at main ideas and repeat back information
– Easily distracted by noise

6. Learning style
• Tactile – use of touch
– Rewrite notes
– Use note cards – organize main ideas
– Study with pen/pencil in hand
– Draw pictures/diagrams
– Organization can be a challenge
• Kinesthetic – use of body – all senses
– Walking around helps in memorizing
– Use real world examples

7. Kolb Inventory
• More complex then the VARK
• Focuses on abilities that need to be
developed to learn
• Based on four stages of learning

8. Kolb
• Effective learners need four kinds of
abilities
– Concrete experiences
– Reflective observation
– Abstract conceptualization
– Active experimentation

9. Myers-Briggs Type
Indicator
• Investigates characteristics and how
those are related to human
interaction and learning
• Looking at psychological development
• No good/bad or right/wrong

10. MBTI
Extraversion vs.
Introversion
• Extraversion
– Outgoing, talkative, take action
– Energized by people
• Introversion
– Reflect, think a lot, good listeners
– Refreshed by quiet and privacy

11. MBTI
Sensing vs. Intuition
• How one perceives the work
• Sensing – 5 senses
– Like the facts, traditional, do right
thing
• Intuition
– Fascinated by what facts mean
– Look more into future, original, creative,
non traditional

12. MBTI
Thinking vs. Feeling
• Thinking
– Logical, rational, analytical
– Objective, can seem cold or impersonal
• Feeling
– Warm, empathetic, kind
– Wants others to be happy

13. MBTI
Judging vs. Perceiving
• Judging
– Planned, orderly, punctual
– Quick decisions, judgmental
• Perceiving
– Adapt to the world
– Flexible, slower decision making, juggling
too much

14. Multiple Intelligences
• Dr. Howard Gardner
– Eight different types of learning
– P.81

15. Learning Disabilities
• Ex. Dyslexia or ADD
• Affects people’s ability to interpret
what they see and hear or to link
information across different parts of
the brain
• Can impede learning to read, write or
do math