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    This document discusses learning styles and how understanding your own learning style can help you succeed in college. It defines learning styles and directs the reader to take a VARK questionnaire to determine their visual, aural, read/write, or kinesthetic preferences. The document encourages adapting reading, studying, and test-taking habits based on one's learning style. It prompts forming groups with others of similar styles to share effective strategies.

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    This document discusses learning styles and how understanding your own learning style can help you succeed in college. It defines learning styles and directs the reader to take a VARK questionnaire to determine their visual, aural, read/write, or kinesthetic preferences. The document encourages adapting reading, studying, and test-taking habits based on one's learning style. It prompts forming groups with others of similar styles to share effective strategies.

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    Learning Objectives

    When you have completed this module, you will


    be able to:
    Discuss what learning styles are
    Understand how knowing your learning style can help
    you be successful in c0llege
    Identify one component of your preferred learning style
    Adapt your reading and studying or test-taking habits
    to suit your preferred learning style
    What are learning styles?

    According to the VARK website, technically,


    the term learning style “refers to all the
    components that might affect a person's
    ability to learn.”
    More on learning styles

    The Creative Learning Center website will let


    you explore a variety of components that
    might affect your learning preferences.
    Discover your VARK
    preferences

    VARK is an acronym that stands for Visual,


    Aural, Read/write and Kinesthetic.

    The VARK questionnaire will help you to


    discover your sensory learning preferences.
    Warning and encouragement

    Knowing your learning style, by itself,


    won’t help you become a better student.

    It is up to you to make use of good learning


    strategies to improve your own learning.
    Make learning style knowledge
    work for you

    To be successful, college students need


    to incorporate new approaches into their
    learning for reading and studying and for
    test-taking.
    Select one of the skills below to learn
    about.
     Reading and studying
     Test-taking
    Reading and study skills

    If you chose to explore reading and study skills, click


    on the links and read the materials below. Be
    prepared to share relevant ideas from these
    materials with others who share your sensory
    learning preference.

    Four note-taking methods (log onto each method and see how
    they differ)
    Creating an ideal study area
    How to form a study group
    Goal setting for studying

    Continue on with the presentation.


    Test-taking skills
    If you chose to explore test-taking skills, click on
    the links below and read the materials. Be prepared
    to share relevant strategies with others who share
    your sensory learning preference.

    General test-taking skills


    Preparing for an essay exam
    Taking an essay exam

    Continue on with the presentation.


    Putting it to work

    After everyone is through with this


    presentation, you will :
     Form groups based upon your sensory learning
    preference and
     Agree upon several appropriate, interesting, and
    helpful reading and study or test-taking skills you
    could use in your coursework.
    Later, on your own, you will complete the
    blog for this week on learning styles.
    Summary

    By viewing this presentation, you are now


    able to:
    Discuss what learning styles are
    Understand how knowing your learning style
    can help you be successful in c0llege
    Identify one component of your preferred
    learning style
    Adapt your reading and studying or test-taking
    habits to suit your preferred learning style

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