Activities Listed by Learning Style

The Learning Styles*: (click on learning style to go directly to related activities)

• Active learners like group work, learn through doing: discussing, explaining, applying.

• Reflective learners prefer working alone, like to think quietly.

• Sensing learners prefer learning facts, like solving problems by well-established methods, dislike complications and surprises, are patient with details and good at memorizing facts and doing hands-on work, are practical and careful, prefer learning that relates to the real world.

• Intuitive learners prefer to discover possibilities and relationships, like innovation and dislike repetition, grasp new concepts quickly, are comfortable with abstractions and mathematical formulations, are innovative and work quickly, dislike memorization and routine calculations.

• Visual learners remember best what they see (pictures, diagrams, flow charts, time lines, films, and demonstrations).

• Verbal remember best what they hear and read.

• Sequential learners gain understanding in linear steps, each step following logically from the previous one; tend to follow logical stepwise paths in finding solutions.

• Global learners tend to learn in large jumps, absorbing material almost randomly without seeing connections, and then suddenly "getting it," are able to solve complex problems quickly or put things together in novel ways once they have grasped the big picture, but they may have difficulty explaining how they did it.

Students' learning styles can be assessed using this on-line assessment instrument

* Resources:
Felder, Richard M. and Soloman, Barbara A.; "LEARNING STYLES AND STRATEGIES"