Thoughts about Learning Styles Survey and Your Teaching?
Post any insight you might have drawn from your particular learnings styles and the effects they have on your classroom (students, strategies, exercises, goals, etc.).
I found that there were a number of questions where I could have gone with both answers. Since that wasn't an option, I did some very random selections which certainly would interfere with the reliability of the results.
Actually, for more than 5 I did not have a good sense of which applied to me, not just that both did. I just didn't know what I was. And how am I "perceived"? Other than insane, ???
I hope I really am as balanced as I scored. However, I'm also inclined to question the reliability of the results because so many of the questions could have gone either way.
Like most of us, I hesitated between two options on many of the questions in the survey. It's true that the results may not be totally reliable; however, I think the survey does have value as a reminder that we may have markedly different learning styles from our students or colleagues. It's a challenge to keep remembering this in our instruction and materials development.
I was not surprised by the results of the Learning Styles Survey. My only observation is that the assessment questions, as some of you pointed out, could go either way. When I teach, I do lean toward a more visual approach. I also try to hit the "middle ground" to accommodate a broader spectrum of learning styles among the students.
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Very interesting. The questions were expecially difficult to answer. Apparently I don't know myself very well.
Which ones were most difficult and why Andre?
I found that there were a number of questions where I could have gone with both answers. Since that wasn't an option, I did some very random selections which certainly would interfere with the reliability of the results.
I had the same experience as Maria - I could have gone either way with some of the questions.
Wazzis?
Actually, for more than 5 I did not have a good sense of which applied to me, not just that both did. I just didn't know what I was. And how am I "perceived"? Other than insane, ???
If I am Global, must i allow for this by trying to be more sequential than I'd naturally be?
I'm still analyzing myself...
I realize that my sequential learning style probably drives many of my students more nuts than I thought...
I hope I really am as balanced as I scored. However, I'm also inclined to question the reliability of the results because so many of the questions could have gone either way.
Like most of us, I hesitated between two options on many of the questions in the survey. It's true that the results may not be totally reliable; however, I think the survey does have value as a reminder that we may have markedly different learning styles from our students or colleagues. It's a challenge to keep remembering this in our instruction and materials development.
I was not surprised by the results of the Learning Styles Survey. My only observation is that the assessment questions, as some of you pointed out, could go either way. When I teach, I do lean toward a more visual approach. I also try to hit the "middle ground" to accommodate a broader spectrum of learning styles among the students.
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