“The VARK Questionnaire: How Do I Learn Best?”

Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V
June 9, 2013

“The VARK Questionnaire: How Do I Learn Best?” People are different in so many ways, from physical differences, personality differences, culture differences, and learning differences. We all have different ways that we take in information and understand information we are receiving. This increases the challenge to understand how some tasks are easier to learn then others in various students (Meehan-Andrews, 2009). A learning model was created in the 1980’s by Neil Fleming called VARK that defines and explains the different ways people learn (VARK, 2011 ). VARK is an acronym for visual, aural, read/write, kinesthetic learning styles in one model (Alkhasawnch, 2007). The evaluation breaks down the person’s different learning styles into four different areas of learning and gives the learner an idea of what area of learning is the strongest. There are four different learning styles presented in this VARK model: visual (pictures, movies, diagrams), auditory (music, discussion, lectures), reading and writing (making lists, reading textbooks, taking notes), and kinesthetic (movement, experiments, hands-on activities) (VARK, 2011).
My Learning Style The Reading/Write learning model is one of the four different learning styles presented in the VARK model. The results for this learner were a strong Read/Write learning preference and the score given was 9. Visual was a 3, Aural 5, and Kinesthetic 3. This method of learning involves making lists, taking notes, and reading in order to take in information necessary to learn and understand. The learner likes dictionaries, glossaries, definitions, handouts, textbooks, and manuals (VARK, 2011). Reading and taking notes are important to this style of learning, where graphics and pictures are not as important a tool for this