Assessment of Learning Style Family Centered Health Promotion Grand Canyon University, Nursing 429V Professor Holmes Julie Smith, RN Before one can decide what their VARK score is, it may be important to understand what each letter in the acronym means. The V in VARK stands for visual, A for auditory, R for reading and writing and finally the K for kinaesthetic. Each of these letters represent an individual’s preferred method of learning new information. With a total VARK score of 48, I
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VARK Analysis VARK learning style is one of the most useful and widely used learning styles that was designed and developed by Neil Fleming in 1987. It was designed to assist learners about their learning preferences and describe how learners can gather, and interpret in order to organize and retain all information for future use (Chick, 2014). Learners are identified by what their preferences upon taking the VARK questionnaire; it includes visual leaning (diagram, picture), auditory learning
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All people have a different learning style such as visual, auditory or kinesthetic, but everyone has a dominant one. When a person is learning he or she uses the learning style that is suitable for them. There is a tool called VARK- A guide to learning by Neil D. Fleming that can determine which learning style each person prefers. According to the VARK (Visual, Aural, Read/Write, Kinesthetic) system questionnaire I scored Visual: 9, Aural: 3, Read/Write: 7 and Kinesthetic 9 and was considered
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VARK Analysis Every one has a mix of learning styles; some people may find that they have a dominant style of learning, with far less use of other styles in different circumstances. There is neither right or wrong style nor your style is fixed, you can develop your less dominant style and make improvement in your dominant ones. Your learning styles have more influence on your learning than you know it, they guide the way you learn. They also change the way you retain information and perceive experiences
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During this past week this author has learned that a learning need is a need to change a behavior and as nurses we have been at the fore front as the educators for our patients and their families for the primary source of health education. People continually acquire knowledge and the ability to learn new skills and an important aspect of this is the individual’s agreement to learn. Many factors influence the learning process like the client’s educational needs, health beliefs and readiness, environment
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Running head: VARK LEARNING STYLE VARK Learning Style Family health Promotion August 27, 2011 VARK Analysis Learning styles are different approaches or habits of learning. Learning styles define as the “composite of characteristic cognitive, affective, and physiological factors that serve as relatively stable indicators of how a learner perceives, interacts with, and responds to the learning environment”( Keefe 1979). Stewart and Felicetti (1992) define learning styles as
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THE VARK QUESTIONNAIRE INTRODUCTION: VARK is a questionnaire that provides people with profiles of their learning preferences in forms of various learning techniques. The VARK acronym stands for four categories of learning preferences. The “V” stands for the visual learning strategy, the “A” stands for the aural learning strategy, the “R” stands for the reading or writing strategy, and the “K” stands for the kinesthetic learning strategy. (Fleming, 2011). To be more specific, it helps
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VARK Analysis Grading Criteria PATRICK ERONINI GRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY Family Centered Health Promotion NRS 429 V Lorraine Hover December 20, 2012 VARK Analysis Grading Criteria Learning styles are a popular concept in psychology and education that are intended to identify how people learn best. The popularity of this concept grew dramatically during the 1970s and 1980s, despite the evidence suggesting that personal learning preferences have no actual influence on learning results. (Pashler
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Learning Strategies Grand Canyon University Family Centered Health Promotion 429V September 13, 2014 Learning Strategies The VARK questionnaire was designed to better explain to students how they intake and output information in a learning type of setting. The questionnaire is 16 questions and depicts, from the users answers, the most fitting form of how they learn. Users can be visual (V), aural (A), read/write (R), Kinesthetic (K) or multimodal which means they are dominant in more
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Learning is part of development and based on how well a person learns , may become more or less successful in life . People have preferences to different learning styles and techniques and they may favor one style or use multiple styles. There is no right or wrong mixture. You can have the ability in less dominant styles and also improve on a well develop styles that, you already use .If you recognize and understand your own learning styles, you can use those techniques better .At the end , by
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