LEARNING STYLES Flashcards
üThe habitual manner in which learners receive
and perceive information, process it,
understand it, value it, store it, and recall it.
üThe way a person processes, internalizes
studies, interprets, and changes new and
challenging materials
Learning Styles/Cognitive Styles
Memletic Learning Style Model
Kolb’s Learning Style
Dunn and Dunn Learning Style
Learning Style Models
Recognizes that each of us prefers to learn in
different ways.
Memletic Learning Style Model
Most people can learn, and each individual
has his own unique ways of mastering new
and difficult subject matter
Dunn and Dunn Learning Style Model
ü depicts learning as 4 stage cycle beginning with an
intermediate concrete experience during which the
person makes observations and reflections
ü Then the person develops an abstract theory from
which he or she develops ideas on how to proceed.
ü Finally, the person actively experiments with actions to
test them out.
ü The four-stage learning cycle are : social or
accommodating, creative or diverging, intellectual or
assimilating, and practical or converging.
Kolb’s Learning Style
Are leaders
ü They learn best by analyzing and solving a problem as a
group using their own intuition and information from
other people rather than from books and lectures.
ü They look for new experiences; often take risks and
employ hands on methods to accomplish their goals.
ü They actively accomplish things often using trial-anderror methods to solve problems.
ü They may be impatient with other people and act on
intuition and are a risk taker.
Social/Accomodator Learners
ü Are imaginative.
ü They have an open mind to new ideas and offer
multiple perspectives.
ü They value brainstorming with a group although they
often listen and observe sharing their own ideas.
ü They rely on concrete examples to learn, and trust their
own feelings when making decisions.
üThey excel in imagination and awareness of meaning.
üTheir are feeling oriented and people oriented and likes
working in groups.
Creative/Diverger Learners
ü Are organized, logical and precise.
ü They like to learn from lectures, reading, and
contemplation.
ü They find facts, ideas, and information fascinating and
challenging to people and emotions.
ü More scientific than artistic.
üTheir strengths are in inductive reasoning, creating
theoretical models and integrating ideas
ü They prefer playing with ideas to actively and applying it
üThey are more concerned with ideas than with people.
Intellectual/Assimilator Learners
ü Are both thinkers and doers.
ü They are those who learn through experimentation,
seeking out new ideas, and discovering practical
applications for them.
ü They can focus intently on selected subjects.
ü They favor technical challenges to interpersonal
matters.
ü They are goal-oriented and make decisions easily.
ü They are good at decision making and problem
solving and likes dealing with technical work rather
than interpersonal relationships.
Practical/Converger Learners
Some studies have shown increased levels of student
achievement when learners with a strong preference for a certain style were matched with a similar teaching or testing style.
* Some studies have shown more student satisfaction when the teacher matches the student’s learning style, but some have not
Matching Learning Styles to
Instructions
Leaning from
actual experience
Concrete Experience (CE) abilities
Learning
by observing others
Reflective Observation (RO) abilities
Creating theories to explain what is seen
Abstract Conceptualization (AC) abilities
Using theories to solve problems.
Active Experimentation (AE) abilities
Some people study in a cool and quiet room, while others cannot focus
unless they have music playing
Environmental
