This Quiz is designed to help you find out if you have a:
- Visual learning style : You need to see information in a visual format and learn best from written information, diagrams, and pictures.
- Hearing learning style : You need to hear information and learn best from lectures and conversations.
- Doing learning style : You need to receive information through touch and feel and learn best from hands-on work and movement.
You may find that you predominantly have one of these learning styles or a mix of two.
Knowing your learning stylean example.
- Dawn Smith dropped out of high school in Grade 10. Now, at age 22, she's gone back to school and discovered she's a tactile learner.
I have to write everything down,
she says, in order to remember and understand the material. Sometimes I make drawings to help myself.
- Dawn also has some preference for auditory learning. I have to read material out loud to myself. That way I hear it better.
- Dawn's understanding of her personal mix of learning styles is helping her gain knowledge and has given her more confidence in the classroom.
Take the Seeing, Hearing, and Doing Quiz
Adapted from Canada Prospects 1998-1999