Physics 260

Learning Styles Page

 

Do you know what a learning style is?

Do you know what your dominant learning style is?

 

Learning styles are the way, or ways, in which we each best intake and process information. Educational researchers have categorized four main styles. Some people, around 60%, have multiple learning styles. Once you know your learning style(s), you can use that information to develop best strategies for yourself. This means that you will be more efficient and less stressed as you:

 

1)             Intake new information.

2)             Assimilate that information.

3)             Output that information for assignments and exams.

 

Here are two very good websites for you to explore. They both have diagnostic questionnaires to help you discover your learning styles and strategies for you to get the most out of your learning experience.

 

VARK website:

http://www.vark-learn.com/english/index.asp

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North Carolina State University Index of Learning Styles:

http://www.engr.ncsu.edu/learningstyles/ilsweb.html

(Barbara A. Soloman and Richard M. Felder)

 

 

Updated January 2010