Learning Styles Analysis

 

Learning Styles Analysis 

The graph above shows the data for five students in an eighth-grade math class.

Interconnection of Learning styles and Development

Cognitively speaking, we can say that not all students learn in the same way. When the student receives the information in his specific learning style, it is easier for him to understand and retain the information. Visual learners will learn effectively from pictures or videos, auditory learners will learn effectively from discussion or reading aloud, and kinesthetic learners will learn effectively by practicing or experiencing concepts.

Visual learners use any visual stimulus to connect the information they hear to be processed and understood by their brain.

Auditory students tend to make better use of their words and have good interaction with their classmates since they seem better at speaking and listening to the ideas of others; these students tend to have excellent ideas and dialogues, they tend to be very empathetic, and their physical language it is fluid.

Kinesthetic students also have good social interaction since they like to experiment and practice concepts; they usually have good body language and are empathic with their classmates.

Effect on planning and Instructional strategies

The learning styles inventory applied to the 8th-grade math class will be used to differentiate the following lessons better.

In this case, we have three different learning styles to cover for students to learn effectively and retain information.

As we have already realized in previous studies, if we manage to differentiate the lessons according to the learning styles of each student, the objective of the day will be achieved easily.

For visual learners, an instructional strategy would be to use activities where students can discuss concepts and correct each other (KAGAN)

Incorporating more posters, vocabulary boards, videos, and sheets with ess
ential concepts would be some effective instructional strategies for visual learners.

For kinesthetic learners, using real-life application examples, more math games, and more practice could be some instructional strategies.

Student strengths, interests, and needs for growth effect on instruction.

During the lesson, formative evaluations would be made according to each student's learning style. Each student learns differently so that each student will be evaluated according to their learning style during the lesson.

Assessments

For visual students, the evaluations will have to be according to this learning style; formative assessments will be related to visual questions, and the summative assessments will be represented by images related to the math problems.

For auditory students, formative evaluations would be carried out in the discussions or questions that are made during the lesson; summative assessment could be done with an oral math test, it would be something unusual, but for example, asking the steps to follow to solve problem math, differences between a correct and an incorrect solution, etc.

For kinesthetic students, the formative evaluations would be based on the data collected in the interactive exercises or when solving a problem during the independent practice; the summative assessments would be problems of application to real life, mathematical reasoning problems, etc.

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