Essay On Learning Styles

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VARK Analysis Paper NRS-429V Family Centered Health Promotion Lorraine Hover Baljinder Wahla June 29, 2014 A learning style is a way that a person adapts to learn a task. Learning styles were not used until the 1970’s. To evaluate a student’s learning style, several models, assessments and exams are used for interpretation. There are two types of students who use more than one learning style. There are some who use the learning style according to the situation. Others adapt different styles to process the information by different means .Though it takes them longer to put together information or prepare the subject, their knowledge become more thorough and they tend to have better understanding of the subject. According to VARK my learning …show more content…

This could consist of text with instructions, audio stating the skill, a video demonstrating the skill, advice on how to improve skills or doing a self-assessment. In these type of styles, students or learners uses different styles, as one learning style is not enough to provide the all sufficient knowledge For example, Patient A used the VARK analysis; Visual, Aural, Read/write, Kinesthetic and Multimodal. This analysis was produced by Neil Fleming. This method was helpful in understanding the preferred learning styles for Patient A. Patient A took the VARK 16 question-exam and determined which learning styles were defined. This article describes the learning style for Patient A, comparing preferred …show more content…

The summary of Patient’s learning is that he or she needs to gather information from all different views of the subject. He or she will need to printout some handouts, and highlight the main information in all different colors .Patient A must make sure that everyone knows what they have learn. Patient A has multimodal preferences because all the modes are related and the four scores are the same. Being multimodal means that Patient A has choices in learning and can use a variety of strategies for their learning. The differences between Patient A’s scores are not large enough to make a particular

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