Learning Style Models and Instruments
Learning Style Models and Instruments
Instruments
• Right Brain/Left Brain and Whole
• Field-Independent/Field-Depende
• Dunn and Dunn Learning Styles
• Jung and Myers-Briggs Typology
• Kolb’s Experiential Learning Mod
• 4MAT System
• Gardner’s Eight Types of Intellige
• VARK Learning Styles
Thinking is critical, Thinking is creative,
p he re Righ
intuitive
logical
H e mi s t Hem
e f t
L Analytical Synthesizing isphe
W
Prefers drawing & re
Prefers talking and
manipulating objects
H
writing
Recognizes/remembers Recognizes/rememb
TH O L
names ers faces
Relies on language in Relies on images in
thinking &
IN E B
thinking
Callosum
remembering
Corpus
& remembering
Frequently loses
KI
Conscious of time &
contact with time &
R
schedules
NG AI
Algebra is the schedules
preferred math Geometry is the
preferred math
N
Controls emotions
Not as good at Free with emotions
interpreting body Good at interpreting
language body language
Likes stability, willing Likes change,
to adhere to rules uncertainty
Field-Independent/Field-
Dependent Perception
• Witkin, Oltman, Raskin and Karp
• Hypothesized that learners have preference
styles for certain environmental cues
• Field-Dependent – person’s perception is
influenced by or immersed in the
surrounding
• Field-Independent – person perceives items
as separate or differentiated from the
surrounding field
Characteristics of Field-
Independent and Field
Dependent
Field-Independent
Learners
Field-Dependent Learners
Learners • Easily affected by criticism
• Not affected by criticism • Will conform to peer
Won’t conform to peer pressure
•
pressure
• Less influenced by • Are influenced by
external feedback feedback (grades &
evaluation)
• Have an impersonal
orientation to the world • Have a social orientation
to the world
Dunn and Dunn Learning
Styles
• Rita and Kenneth Dunn
• Five Basic Stimuli
1.Environmental elements
2.Emotional elements
3.Sociological patterns
4.Physical elements
5.Psychological elements
Dunn and Dunn’s Learning
Style Elements
Environ Soun Light Temp Desig
d Persiste.Responsi n
mental Motivat Structu
ion nce bility re
Emotion Peer Self Pair Tea AdultVarie
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Prepared by: Kelvin Russel R. Leparto
BSN IV-1