Sunday, 11 November 2012

Learning style test (+my learning style)

There is a variety of different ways you can find out what your type of learning style is. You can go out, find a topic of some sort, something you like, and figure out an approach on how you are going to learn it. There are also different websites that allow you to get a rough idea of what type of learning style best suits you. Most of these websites will ask you to fill out numerous multiple choice questions to determine which one suits you the best. The best way to check if they are correct, make sure that there are more than 10 questions, a good number of questions would fit in between 50 and 100 since the more you have, the better results you will receive. The way they are worked out is, each question being related to a specific learning style, or even styles that intervene between each other, and it may apply to both styles. These results are then calculated and presented to you in a grid or a point system. Wherever you have scored the most, is your learning style.

The website that i used was :
http://www.edutopia.org/multiple-intelligences-learning-styles-quiz





As stated before, in this picture you can see the initial multiple choices that they have presented me with.
This type of quiz provides you with questions to which the answers vary from None to All the time.

I will then go ahead and fill this quiz in, to find out what my learning style is.





I went ahead and done the quiz, it consisted of 4 pages of random questions and it has provided me with the results (below)


As you can see above, these are my preferable learning styles. It shows that my logical thinking is my best area, and that i like to logically go through different scenarios before actually jumping in and doing it. It also shows that i have equally scored high in  visual and interpersonal styles. This means that i seem to learn better when i can see what I'm learning about and that i would like to talk out problems if i have any, with someone who knows what they are talking about. I also like to give and receive feedback on things i've done, so that i can improve in those areas in the future and maybe not make as many mistakes.
Here is an insert from the website (where the quiz was based) of what interpersonal and visual learners mean;









































How finding out my learning style has benefited me?

I have found it much easier to learn about Photoshop when Mrs Black was showing us how to use a new tool on the programme. As I am a visual learner, observation would be my speciality. I was able to edit an image for my assignment using the tool I learnt and I was surprised with how well it worked out. Also if there is a subject area which I don't understand, I will observer my fellow students on how to complete a task or to use a tool that I haven't mastered yet to get a grasp of it. 

I've noticed that before i start a new project I tend to try and work out how I'm going to complete it and how its going to look like, before i start it. I write out my plan and then begin to work on it. Since I am a logical thinker, this has become an important step for me to take. After writing up my plan, I would ask some of my friends how to accomplish my goal, and getting feedback from them helped me to learn new tools and understand how they work.

Also I enjoy getting feedback, because it lets me know it which areas I was lacking knowledge. This helps me to develop those areas further so I can be sure not to mess up in this type of task in the future. This is where where my interpersonal side helps my development. I find that tasks are much easier when they are divided up between groups. This is because I can talk different strategies out with my team mates about how we are going to tackle that task. 





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