The VARK Questionnaire John Vandruff Grand Canyon University

The VARK Questionnaire is a set of questions designed to analyze and understand how a person learns more effectively. VARK is an acronym that stands for Visual, Aural, Read/write, and Kinesthetic. These are sensory modalities that are applied to the learning of information. A combination of multiple learning styles is classified as a multimodal approach. The questionnaire also gives recommendations on approaches to retain information and how to customize a specific learning style. Applying these recommendations will improve learning skills and should be applied to every classroom. Students are able to learn successfully when instructors apply the learning recommendations assessed through the VARK questionnaire (Isra, n.d., p. 573). According to the VARK Questionnaire the learning style that best describes myself is multimodal style. The two styles that make up the multimodal style are aural and kinesthetic. Aural is a learning style that involves the auditory sense. For example, listening to a seminar is one illustration of auditory learning. Kinesthetic is another learning style that focuses on physical action. Hands on experiences are one good example of kinesthetic learning. In a multimodal learning style, the learner will use different learning techniques depending on the situation. The International Journal of Medicine conducted a study to determine the types and percentages of learning styles and concluded that most people are multimodal (Anu, 2012, p. 230). According to Anu (2012), “the results showed that 6.5%, 12.6% and 10.3% of students only preferred the visual, aural and kinesthetic modes, respectively. A further analysis showed that 70.6% of preferred multiple learning styles” (p.230). Multimodal is a great learning style to apply various