Transcript Individual Learning Profile

Individual Learning Profile
Rebecca Hedreen
There are many learning or
personality style assessment
tools…
Visual-Verbal-Tactile/Kinesthetic
Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence
Inventory
Felder’s Learning Style Inventory
Life Colors
Visual-VerbalTactile/Kinesthetic
I’m a Tactile/
Kinesthetic. Verbal
is my secondary
style.
I’d rather pick it up
and play with it than
read about it.
Howard Gardner’s MII
For Howard
Gardner’s
Multiple
Intelligences
Inventory, I’m
pretty even
across the board.
Note the lower
score on the
Visual, however.
Linguistic
31
Mathematics
38
Visual/Spatial
20
Body/Kinesthetic
27
Naturalistic
36
Music
30
Interpersonal
Intrapersonal
25
35
Feldman’s Learning Styles
Richard Feldman
devised a 4 scale
profile:
Active – Reflective
Sensing – Intuitive
Visual – Verbal
Sequential - Global
ACT
11
9
7
5
3
1
11
9
7
5
3
1
11
9
7
5
3
1
11
9
7
5
3
1
X
1
3
5
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REF
7
9
11
7
X
9
11
X
1
3
5
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7
9
11
X
1
3
5
<-- -->
7
9
11
SEN
VIS
SEQ
1
3
5
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INT
VRB
GLO
I’m slightly Reflective and
Verbal, moderately Global,
and definitely Intuitive.
What does all this mean?
I need to listen and do!
I’m better off listening and
taking notes or trying
something out, hands on.
That’s the Tactile side and
Gardner’s Mathematical
Intelligence speaking!
In college I took a lot of notes,
and never read them. The act
of taking the notes was
enough to fix the material in
my memory.
How I adjust my learning to my
learning style…
Whenever possible, I choose a project or
topic that I can really get into and explore.
This takes a similar mindset to exploring
something “hands on”.
I really prefer to “do something” with the
knowledge I’ve gained, so papers about
applying knowledge to specific situations,
either personal or case studies, work well for
me.
Handling online learning…
I’ve adjusted well to online learning, perhaps
because of the combination of sharing and
isolation allows me to balance my
Interpersonal and Intrapersonal facets
(Gardner).
The Reflective (Feldman) part of me enjoys
the chance to sit back and think about what
I’m going to say in our asynchronous
environment. Luckily, I’m more verbal than
visual (Feldman) so the text-based classroom
is fine.
And what was that Life Color
stuff?
In a similar test to many of the others,
you are assigned a color based on your
personality.
I’m blue—reflective, imaginative,
tending to go off on odd tangents and
find odd connections.
It makes me annoying in meetings!
I do and I’m blue!
This is me in one of my
Renaissance Faire outfits,
another example of doing.
This is an adaption of
Medieval Celtic garb from
western Europe.
References
Learning Disabilities Resource Community. (2002). Multiple
personalities inventory. Retrieved July 24, 2003 from
http://www.ldrc.ca/projects/miinventory/miinventory.php with
explanations at
http://www.ldrc.ca/projects/miinventory/miinventory.php?eightst
yles=1
Honolulu Community College. (n.d.) Learning style inventory.
Retrieved July 24, 2003 from
http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/gui
debk/teachtip/m-files/m-lernst.htm
Mcann, D. (2000). Life colors. Retrieved July 24, 2003 from
http://www.lifecolorsonline.com/index.html (This is not the
actual test I took, but it is similar. I took a version of this test in
a workshop on teaching methods.)
Solomon, B. and R. Feldman. (1999). Index of learning styles
questionairre. Retrieved July 24, 2003 from
http://www.ncsu.edu/felder-public/ILSdir/ilsweb.html with
explanations at http://www.ncsu.edu/felderpublic/ILSdir/styles.htm