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Student Learning Styles

Student Learning Styles. Heartland Community College IDC. Student Learning Styles. Overview Cognitive Personality Information Processing Instructional Preference. Student Learning Styles. Example I Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Cognitive Your Type?

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Student Learning Styles

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  1. Student Learning Styles Heartland Community College IDC

  2. Student Learning Styles • Overview • Cognitive Personality • Information Processing • Instructional Preference

  3. Student Learning Styles • Example I • Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) • Cognitive • Your Type? • Assessments/Assignments/Exercises? • Delivery Modes?

  4. Student Learning Styles • Example II • Visual, Aural, Read/write, Kinesthetic (VARK) • Information Processing/Instructional Preference • Your Type? • Assessments/Assignments/Exercises? • Delivery Modes? • http://www.vark-learn.com/english/page.asp

  5. Student Learning Styles • Other Inventories • Kolb (Personality/Information Processing) • Concrete: Labs, field work, observations, films, simulations, problems • Abstract: lectures, papers, analogies • Reflective: logs, journals, brainstorming, discussion, questions, • Active: simulations, case studies, homework, labs, projects, field work

  6. Student Learning Styles • Other Inventories (continued) • Gardner (Multiple Intelligences) • Verbal-Linguistic • Logical-Mathematical • Visual-Spatial • Body-Kinesthetic • Musical-Rhythmic • Interpersonal • Intrapersonal • http://jeffcoweb.jeffco.k12.co.us/high/wotc/confli3.htm

  7. Student Learning Styles • Critiques • Measurement issues of validity and reliability • Research hasn’t clearly connected teaching style, learning style and learning • Driven at time by business interests vs. educational interests • Students should learn to adapt not instructors

  8. Student Learning Styles • How to use this information? • Don’t fight your own learning preference • Do try to vary your delivery • Do try to vary your assignments/assessments • Do be intentional about your choices of teaching style and assignments/assessments • Do communicate what you are doing and why with your students

  9. Student Learning Styles • References • Bonham, B. and Hunter R. (1993). “A New Look at Learning Styles”, Research in Developmental Education, Vol. 10, Issue 4, Appalachian State University. • Bargar, J., Bargar, R. and Cano, J. (1993). “Discovering Learning Preferences and Learning Differences in the Classroom” Ohio Agricultural Education Curriculum Materials Service, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

  10. Student Learning Styles • References • Lawrence, G. (1997). “Learning Style Reports for the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator”, Center for Applications of Psychological Type, Gainesville, FL. • http://www.cyg.net/~jblackmo/diglib/styl-d.html

  11. Student Learning Styles • Sources • http://www.ttuhsc.edu/SOM/Success/LSTI.htm • http://www.vark-learn.com/english/index.asp • http://web.indstate.edu/ctl/twt/four_corn.html • http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/research/learning_styles.shtml • http://learningandteaching.dal.ca/taguide/Kolb.html • http://www.lsda.org.uk/files/PDF/1540.pdf

  12. Student Learning Styles • Sources (Continued) • R.M. Felder and L.K. Silverman, (1988). "Learning and Teaching Styles in Engineering Education,"Engr. Education, 78(7), 674-681.

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