Learning Pattern

VAK Learning Styles Self-Assessment Questionnaire

On the second day of the MPU program at Taylor's, we've been given the opportunity to carry out the VAK Learning Styles Self-Assessment Questionnaire to test and get to know our learning styles.

  

  The VAK learning styles model suggests that most people can be divided into one of three preferred styles of learning. 

• VISUAL learning style
• AUDITORY learning style
• KINAESTHETIC learning style

  After doing the test, I found out that my leaning style is VISUAL. VAK Learning Styles explain that someone with a VISUAL learning style has a preference for seen or observed things, including pictures, diagrams, demonstrations, displays, handouts, films, flip-chart, etc. These people will use phrases such as ‘show me’, ‘let’s have a look at that’ and will be best able to perform a new task after reading the instructions or watching someone else do it first. These are the people who will work from lists and written directions and instructions. A VISUAL learner uses these ways to study :

INTAKE [To take in the information, use]

1. underlining 
2. different colors 
3. highlighters 
4. symbols
5. flow charts, charts, graphs 
6. pictures, videos, posters slides 
7. different spatial arrangements on the page 
8. white space
9. textbooks with diagrams, pictures 
10. lecturers who use gestures and picturesque language 

  After knowing about ourselves, the next task was to find another person with different leaning styles to learn more about the variety of learning styles. After many attempts, I finally found an AUDITORY learner and a KINAESTHETIC learner. These are my results after a Q&A session: 

Name : Teh Wei Ching

VAK Results : AUDITORY learner

Learning styles :

- Pays attention in class

- Completes homework on time

- Attend classes

- Prefer listening than reading

- Discuss with others

- Explains new ideas to others

Name : Julyan Tay

VAK Results : KINAESTHETIC learner

Learning styles :

- Studies alone

- Doesn't burn the midnight oil

- Procrastinator

- Trial and error

- Do pass years

- Have his own recipe for problem solving

  People commonly have a main preferred learning style, but this will be part of a blend of all three. Some people have a very strong preference; other people have a more even mixture of two or less commonly, three styles. When you know your preferred learning style(s) you understand the type of learning that best suits you. This enables you to choose the types of learning that work best for you. There is no right or wrong learning style. The point is that there are types of learning that are right for your own preferred learning style.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.