Teaching Tip

Having student’s discover their own learning style using the Web site: VARK - A Guide to Learning Styles

• It can be helpful for students to understand their own learning style. This will give them information on the best way to take in information and to learn effectively.
• The VARK Web site has a simple questionnaire that can be taken with the results tabulated immediately. There is more information on the Web site about each learning style.

How Do I Learn Best using the VARK Questionnaire?

The VARK questionnaire aims to find out something about your preferences for the way you work with information. You will have a preferred learning style and one part of that learning style is your preference for the intake and output of ideas and information.

Study Practices Keyed to VARK Preferences

• Your VARK preferences can be used to help you develop additional, effective strategies for learning. From the choices below, select your particular preference(s) to see how you should: 
• take in information; 
• study information for effective learning; 
• study for performing well on an examination.

Visual and Aural and Read/write and Kinesthetic and Multimodal

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