The Relationship between VARK Learning Styles and Learning Outcomes in an Undergraduate Blended Learning Course Presented by Stephen Asunka GTUC @ 13-14.

Slides:



Advertisements
Similar presentations
Evaluating the Different Learning Styles: How Students Learn to Enhance Scientific Knowledge and Understanding Belinda R. Hauser 1, Danyelle Winchester.
Advertisements

Evaluating the Different Learning Styles: How Students Learn to Enhance Scientific Knowledge and Understanding Belinda R. Hauser 1, Danyelle Winchester.
Learning Styles and Preferences Figuring out how students learn best UNIT 1.
V isual. A uditory. R eading. K inesthetic. From the Training Room to the Call Center Floor: How to be a Success!
Incorporating Adult Learning Styles Practicum Instructor Training September 17, 2008.
This Week’s Host: Chris Ziegler Example Presentation Slides.
Center for Statewide E-learning ● NSU 1 Introduction The issue of learning styles is becoming increasingly important in the last two decades. learning.
Learning Styles Mrs. Sterbinsky. EQ: How do I learn best?
Discovering How You Learn
The VARK Model ( Copyright Version 7.0 (1992) held by Neil D. Fleming, Christchurch, New Zealand and Charles C. Bonwell, Springfield, MO 65804, USA.) V.
Learning Styles and their application to StudyNet LTI lunchtime seminar series Janet Webber – Physiotherapy/LTI Monday 15 th June 1.
Learning Styles At a Glance Terresa D. Fontana, M.A.Ed.
Learning Styles.
Study Skills and Strategies. About Me Name:Mauricio Najarro College:Williams College SAT Score:2400 Has a rich and diverse teaching background, starting.
IDENTIFYING LEARNING STYLES PASS How Would You Do It?  Cooking a new dish for dinner…  Read a recipe (from a cookbook or online).  Watch and.
Learner Diversity and Classroom Learning. Classroom Management not a set of discipline and control strategies to make students to work and listen to teacher.
Integrating Learning Style Theory with Tutor and Mentor Training Preston VanLoon, Ed.D.
DESIGN OF A FLEXIBLE E-ASSESSMENT SYSTEM TO ACCOMMODATE DIVERSE LEARNING STYLES: A MATHEMATICS CASE STUDY Tendai Dube University of Derby and Minhua Ma.
Learning Styles, Part II: Different Ways of Teaching A KIT workshop.
Level 2: Chapter 10.  Understand that the term “learning styles” can be defined in several ways.  Use a simple inventory to determine learning style.
Learning Styles and Subject Specific Learning
VARK STRATEGIES Learn your best An LSCC Learning Center Self-Paced Tutorial.
Kaumudi Nagaraju, EnhanceEdu Pedagogy and Learning Styles.
Adult Learning Theory Laura Brey, MS NASBHC Training of Trainers April 21 – 23, 2008.
Learning Styles
Personal Learning Style and Goal Setting Session 1: Introduction and Personal Learning Styles Visual Kinesthetic Auditory.
Warm Up How do you think knowing your learning style will make you a better student?
Various Learning Styles
What are “Learning Preferences”? Each individual is unique, therefore, each individual’s style of learning is also unique. 3 Main Learning Preferences.
VARK- How do I learn best?
Learning Styles and Mathematics Presented by: Sarah Cobbett.
Incorporating Learning Styles Theory in ISW lessons ISW Facilitator’s Conference June 13, 2009 By: Marjorie Contenti, SAIT Polytechnic.
The VARK Model ( Copyright Version 7.0 (1992) held by Neil D. Fleming, Christchurch, New Zealand and Charles C. Bonwell, Springfield, MO 65804, USA.) V.
SDEV101: Learning Styles Unit 12. Learning Styles Individual’s preferred way of learning Individual’s preferred way of learning May be based on: May be.
By Kit Wilson Trevor Gascoigne Ken Komonko
How you learn best. David Kolb's model: based on the Experiential Learning Theory, Converger; Diverger;Assimilator; Accommodator;. Honey and Mumford's.
VARK Learning Styles Inventory. VARK What it is It is about PREFERENCES It is about LEARNING It is about YOU Scores indicate how you learn What it isn’t.
Student Learning Objectives (SLO) Resources for Science 1.
LEARNING STYLES Discussion 3 Heather Ivey. LEARNING STYLES Many people believe that they will learn best if they are presented information that carters.
LEARNING STYLES Discussion Unit 4. My Discussion Post ◦ From researching learning styles, I have learned that different studies give different names to.
CBI Health Group Identifying Learning Preferences.
Your Learning Style.
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? Question 1 What is a scheme of work? A a plan for the session B the learning outcomes C the structure and content of.
Perceptual Modalities The Implications for Students in Web-based Learning Glenn Cockerline David Yearwood
HISTORY OF TYPES OF LEARNING
Learning Style Models; To use or not to use
Learning styles and teaching:
EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH
IMPLEMENTI NG A CURRICULU M DAILY IN THE CLASSROOM Lesson 2 Educ 10 Curriculum Development Therysa Mae A. Sangco, LPT.
MBTI Day 5/6 of class.
Human Biology in-class assignment:
Learning Style’s Fleming’s VARK
Does Research Support Differentiated Teaching Methods?
Traditional ways that measure or define intelligence are limiting
Learning Styles What is yours?
Teaching Academically Diverse Learners
Discovering How You Learn
Learning styles and teaching styles
Training Trainers and Educators Unit 2 - Learning and Teaching Styles
How do people learn?.
Sixth Grade Instructions
The VARK Model (Copyright Version 7. 0 (1992) held by Neil D
BEING DIFFERENT GOOD IS MASTER TEACHER DVBC SEPTEMBER 29, 2018
Learning and the Individual
Learning styles Is a group of characteristic, attitudes, and behaviors that define our way of learning.
Learning online: Motivated to Self-Regulate?
Secondary English Methods
Training Trainers and Educators Unit 2 - Learning and Teaching Styles
Learner Diversity GGGB3223 LEARNING STYLES
Different Learning Styles
Presentation transcript:

The Relationship between VARK Learning Styles and Learning Outcomes in an Undergraduate Blended Learning Course Presented by Stephen Asunka GTUC @ 13-14 JUNE 2017, ACCRA, GHANA

Outline Define & Discuss Learning Styles Learning Style Theories - The VARK Model The Study - Process & Findings - Implications

Learning Style The preferential way in which an individual absorbs, processes, comprehends and retains information

Learning Style The amount of knowledge that an individual absorbs and retains, is directly related to the degree to which the educational experience is geared toward that individual's learning style, rather than his/her intelligence (Chandler, 2017).

Learning Style Meshing Hypothesis - students will learn best if teaching approaches are aligned with their individualized learning styles Teachers should assess the learning styles of their students and adapt their classroom methods to best fit each student's learning style (Pritchard, 2014). No undisputable evidence that this approach produces better outcomes (Kozhevnikov, et. al., 2014)

Learning Style Yet, educators continue to hold positive perceptions about the Meshing Hypothesis. e.g. Howard-Jones (2014) - over 90% of teachers in five countries (the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Turkey, Greece, and China) agreed that individuals learn better when they receive information tailored to their preferred learning styles

Learning Style Several learning style theories, models and inventories are continually being put forth David Kolb's Learning Style Inventory (LSI) Peter Honey and Alan Mumford's model Burke Barbe's Learning modalities Neil Fleming's VAK/VARK model Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Anthony Gregorc's model Grasha and Riechmann's Cognitive approaches National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP) model

Learning Style Research works applying these models have still not produced anything conclusive and acceptable Researchers are hoping that a "new experimental paradigm may eventually emerge and reveal that the Meshing Hypothesis was right all along“ (Willingham et. al., 2015)

The VARK Model Neil D. Fleming (1987) developed the VARK inventory in an effort to improve faculty development and to help students become better learners

The VARK Model Visual learners process information best if they can see it. Graphs, flow charts and pictures are helpful to them. Auditory learners like to hear the information. Process information best by listening - lectures, recordings etc. Read/write learners like to see the written words. They like to take notes verbatim and reread these over and over again. Kinesthetic learners like to acquire information through experience and practice. They learn best by doing

The VARK Model The VARK inventory includes a 16-question questionnaire that identifies a person's sensory modality preferences, i.e. learning styles or methods used to process information. Each question has four possible choices that imply preferences for visual, aural, reading/writing and kinesthetic learning styles Study participants are required to choose all answers that apply to them

The VARK Model Attempts have been made to establish relationships between VARK learning style preferences and student performance in university courses. e.g. Dobson (2010) - strong kinesthetic learning style had a significant negative relationship with performance in physiology courses Eudoxie (2011) - no significant relationship between VARK learning style preferences and performance in a soil management science course

The Study 287 level 200 students who took a Java Programming course at GTUC - 1st Semester, 2016-17 academic year Convenience sample of 70 students 62 completed questionnaire 54 provided their student IDs Scores of these students retrieved Analysis - Descriptive Statistics

The Study Findings Students were distributed into one of the following categories: Unimodal - Having only of the V, A, R, or K preferences Multimodal - Having more than one preference.

The Study Findings Multimodal was further classified into Bimodal - Having two preferences (AK, AR, RK, VA, VK, VR) Trimodal - Having three preferences (ARK, VAR, VAK, VRK) Quadrimodal - having all 4 preferences.

The Study Findings Majority are multimodal - in agreement with most other studies

The Study For unimodal - Kinesthetic predominates Percentage of Respondents For unimodal - Kinesthetic predominates For bimodal - Visual + Kinesthetic predominates For trimodal - Visual + Auditory + Kinesthetic predominates No quadrimodal

Style N Mean Score (%) SD Min Max VRK 3 69.09 5.34 62 74 VAR 2 68.12 2.08 66 70 VAK 6 66.06 3.25 R 1 66.00 0.00 K 5 65.03 5.06 57 VR 63.92 4.64 61 67 RK 63.67 1.57 VA 63.48 4.39 AK 7 63.36 8.81 45 A 61.21 7.92 55 72 AR 4 59.37 6.49 53 ARK 58.24 11.72 35 VK 8 57.48 10.29 32

69.01 Learning Style 57.48 Mean score (%) No Significant d

The Study Implications According to VARK inventory, study participants possess a wide diversity in learning styles No significant difference between preferred learning styles and learning outcomes (scores) Teachers should combine different educational strategies to meet the varied learning preferences of students.