Learning Styles

Question 1

What does scaffolding depend on?

Answer 1

content and context

Question 2

List the item’s of bloom’s original taxonomy from the lowest to highest level of knowledge.

Answer 2

6. knowledge
7. comprehension
8. application
9. analysis
10. synthesis
11. evaluation

Question 3

List bloom’s taxonomy’s revised Anderson version from the lowest to highest level of understanding.

Answer 3

6. Remembering
7. Understanding
8. Applying
9. Analyzing
10. Evaluating
11. Creating

Question 4

List the concepts in Miller’s pyramid from lowest to highest

Answer 4

Knows, knows how, shows how, does

Question 5

What happens if the student learning style mismatch with teaching style?

Answer 5

Student performance will be influenced

Question 6

What are the uses of learning styles (6)

Answer 6

• Assist with vocational counseling by HR professionals and career counselors
• Identify potential misalignments between individuals and their career choices
• Guide curriculum and planning
• Assess preferences towards different activities associated with problem-based learning and other instructional models
• Influence retention and application of knowledge, which is correlated to academic success
• Influence continuing professional development (CPD) preferences
• Compare between faculty and students learning styles

Question 7

What are the factors contribute to student’s individual learning style, gives two examples of each.

Answer 7

1. Physiology:
   • hunger, time of the day
2. Affective (attitude):
   • Affective domain: motivation, attitudes, values, emotions
   • Locus of control: external versus internal
3. Cognitive and conceptualization (information acquiring and processing):
   • Cognitive domain: Individuals perceive, organize, retain, and use information differently
   • Quick, slow responders

Question 8

What are two methods of personality testing?

Answer 8

MBTI and Kolb’s learning inventory

Question 9

What are the uses of different learning styles?

Answer 9

• Commercially available tools (LSI or MBTI) are used by instructors interested in introducing
  learning styles theory to groups of students or instructors
• Construct-valid model of learning styles relevant to healthcare professions was developed
  building on the psychological theories of Kolb

Question 10

What skills does Kolb focus on in order to categorize people into learning styles?

Answer 10

• How a person perceives or take in information (level of hands-on interaction “performance”)
• How a person processes information once it has been received (level of abstraction)