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Discovering
How You Learn
The VARK Learning Styles
Inventory
O VARK Inventory focuses on how learners prefer to use
their senses
O Knowing your VARK score can help you develop your
own study strategies and do better in college
O Visual
O Prefer to learn information through charts, graphs, other
visual means
O Aural
O Prefer to hear information
O Read/Write
O Prefer to learn information displayed as words
O Kinesthetic
O Prefer to learn through experience and practice
Complete the
VARK Questionnaire
Visual – Aural – Read/Write - Kinesthetic
The Kolb Inventory
of Learning Styles
O Focuses on abilities we need to develop in order to
learn
O Effective learners need four kinds of abilities:
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Concrete experience
Reflective observation
Abstract conceptualization
Active experimentation
O Opposite styles of learning: Abstract-concrete and
Active-reflective
O Four discrete group of learners:
O Divergers, assimilators, convergers, and
accommodators
The Myers-Briggs
Type Indicator
O Represents a “psychological type” on the
combination of four different scales
O Extraversion (E) vs. Introversion (I)
O Indicates where you direct your energy and attention
O Sensing (S) vs. Intuition (N)
O Indicates how you perceive the world and take in
information
O Thinking (T) vs. Feeling (F)
O Indicates how you prefer to make your decisions
O Judging (J) vs. Perceiving (P)
O Indicates how you characteristically approach the
outside world
Multiple Intelligences
O Theory of multiple intelligences developed in 1983 by
Dr. Howard Gardner
O Proposes eight different intelligences to describe how
humans learn
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Verbal/Linguistic
Logical/Mathematical
Visual/Spatial
Bodily/Kinesthetic
Musical/Rhythmic
Interpersonal
Intrapersonal
Naturalist
Complete the
Multiple Intelligences
Inventory
When Learning Styles and
Teaching Styles Conflict
O Instructors tend to teach in ways that
conform to their own styles of learning
O When you recognize a mismatch between
how you best learn and how you are being
taught
O Take control of your learning process
O Don’t depend on your instructor
O Employ your own preferences, talents, and
abilities to study and retain information
Learning with a Disability
O Different learning disabilities affect people’s
ability to interpret what they see and hear
O Attention disorders
O Daydream excessively, easily distracted
O ADD, ADHD
O Cognitive learning disabilities
O Dyslexia—a developmental reading disorder
O Learning disabilities are not related to
intelligence
Tech Tip: Branch Out
O Finding ways to adapt to teaching techniques
that lie outside your comfort zone
O For auditory learners
O Read your notes and textbook passages aloud as
you study
O For visual learners
O Take notes and illustrate them
O For hands-on learners
O Build models or spreadsheets, take fieldtrips to
gather experience