Name: Career: Subject: Title of the activity: Year:

Gilma Esperanza Cornejo Muoz. English Major Vark inventory learning style Vark inventory learning style 2013

Introduction The purpose of Vark inventory learning style is that people learn a new way of learning in order to have a greater benefit, this learning style can be used in different fields of life as it can focus on studies, sports, business and others, to know our way of learning we will see what are the areas that we have to improve. The Vark style is a questionnaire that helps any person whether individual or business that need to know the type of training that they have, the score on the assessment will describe the communication strategies of the people and the leadership behaviors that applied in a business context.

3. The test result and the description of your learning style: My scores were:

Visual: 5 Aural: 7 Read/Write: 7 Kinesthetic: 8

I have a multimodal (VARK) learning preference and it means that I have a mixed combination of potentialities of the learning styles. Afortunadamente ser multimodal me permite ser una persona que puede adaptarse a cualquier tipo de enseanza que el profesor aplique According to the score my preference of learning is Kinesthetic (tactile learning); I can say that I prefer to learn by moving and doing, I believe that learning can be better if I practice the things, because more I learn the more I practice.

4. Select the Study Strategies that apply to your learning preferences from the list provided by the author of the VARK test. The VARK Questionnaire Results : Visual: 5; Aural: 7; Read/Write: 7; Kinaesthetic: 8 INTAKE SWOT - Study without OUTPUT tears Visual=5

- attend classes Aural=7 - discuss topics - explain new ideas to other people - use a tape recorder - remember the interesting examples, stories, jokes... - leave spaces in your notes for later recall and 'filling' - glossaries - handouts - textbooks - readings - library - notes (often verbatim) - essays

- Convert your "notes" into a learnable package by reducing them (3:1) - Put your summarized notes onto tapes and listen to them. - Read your summarized notes aloud.

- Imagine talking with the examiner. - Practice writing answers to old exam questions.

Read/ Write=7

-Read your notes (silently) again and again. - Rewrite the ideas and principles into other words. - Organize any diagrams,

- Write exam answers. - Practice with multiple choice questions. - Write your lists (a, b, c, d, 1, 2, 3, and 4).

- manuals (computing and laboratory) - all your senses - sight, Kinesthetic=8 touch, taste, smell, hearing ... - laboratories - field trips - examples of principles - lecturers who give reallife examples - applications

graphs ... into statements, e.g. "The trend is..." - Put plenty of examples into your summary. Use case studies and applications to help with principles and abstract concepts. - Use pictures and photographs that illustrate an idea. - Go back to the laboratory or your lab manual. - Write practice answers, paragraphs... - Role plays the exam situation in your own room

Conclusion: As a conclusion I can say that it is an interesting tool that could be apply in our country in education are, if the schools or universities did this test they can know what is the learning style the students have and with that information they can make actions to improve the knowledge acquisition in our country. I agree with the result because I think that I can learn more if I practice touching, and also I think that I dont have problems to learn with other kind of resources that teacher could use and the score of the test show that.