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VAK Test Analysis

The document summarizes the results of a VAK learning styles assessment for a student. The student scored highest in the kinaesthetic learning style category. Kinaesthetic learners learn best through physical experiences like movement, touching, feeling and hands-on activities. The recommendation is that kinaesthetic learners need opportunities for movement, stories, and visuals to learn effectively. Some strengths of kinaesthetic learners are that they learn best through movement, focus on the whole picture, and need hands-on activities to process learning.

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VAK Test Analysis

The document summarizes the results of a VAK learning styles assessment for a student. The student scored highest in the kinaesthetic learning style category. Kinaesthetic learners learn best through physical experiences like movement, touching, feeling and hands-on activities. The recommendation is that kinaesthetic learners need opportunities for movement, stories, and visuals to learn effectively. Some strengths of kinaesthetic learners are that they learn best through movement, focus on the whole picture, and need hands-on activities to process learning.

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Test analysis: VAK learning styles self assessment

questionnaire
Date and time of testing: 6.11.2018
Test subject: Gonța Mihaela (20 years)
Teacher who tested: Moraru Ina
Results: A (visual learning style) – 6
B (auditory learning style) – 8
C ( Kinaesthetic learning style) – 16
Interpretation of results: Someone with a kinaesthetic learning style has a
preference for physical experience- touching,feeling,holding,doing,practical
hands-on experiences.These people will use phrases such as ”let me try”, ”how do
you feel” and will be best able to perform a new task by going ahead and trying it
out ,learning as they go.These are people who like to experiment,hands-on and
never look at the instruction first”

Recommendation and consequences: often, kinesthetic learners are


misunderstood. Their need for movement is sometimes viewed as a behavior
problem. These are often the students who are constantly being told to "sit still"
in their desks. Unfortunately the more we urge kinesthetic learners to sit still, the
more they seem to need to move. Once we understand that movement IS a
learning style, the more success we will have with these very special learners. We
can learn to make the need to move work FOR us.

Two other important strategies that are powerful for kinesthetic learners are
story and visual. So, to recap, the three best strategies to use when teaching a
kinesthetic learner are:

1. Movement
2. Story

3. Visuals

Child1st addresses the needs of the kinesthetic learner by incorporating hand and
body motions, visuals and story in every concept taught. This is why we are here.
We have spent years developing teaching resources that by their very nature are
multisensory and meet the needs of visual learners, kinesthetic/tactile learners,
and right-brain learners. Those designations cover a multitude of different
learning styles and preferences.

WHAT ARE THE STRENGTHS OF THE KINESTHETIC LEARNER?

Learns best through movement

Will focus on the whole picture

Learns best with 3-D materials

Needs to move while processing new information, but with very little external
stimulation that would distract (let the body move but limit objects and visuals in
the environment that would capture their focus away from the lesson)

Needs to learn using hands-on activities to process learning

Is often highly intuitive

Needs to physically process what he is learning - let them actually do the work
rather than listen to how it is done.

WHAT ARE GOOD PRACTICES THAT BENEFIT KINESTHETIC


LEARNERS?
1. Give them plenty of outdoor time. A small study of children with attention
deficit hyperactivity disorder last year found that walks outdoors appeared to
improve scores on tests of attention and concentration. (Taken from a NY Times
article by Tara Parker-Pope)
2. Let them move! They will learn more quickly and effectively if you let them
stand at their desk, swing their legs, pace the floor - as long as they are not
disrupting other students.

3. Break up long lessons into smaller chunks, change teaching location (sit on rug,
sit in desks, go outside, switch seats, etc.)

4. If you are teaching steps for solving a problem, have students imagine
themselves following the steps.

5. Their attention follows their hands. Encourage them to draw sketches or


diagrams of what they are hearing in a lesson, or when doing a sheet of math
problems, teach them to point to each problem they come to. Let them use
flashcards with information they are learning.

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