VARK Analysis and Learning Styles

NRS-429V

June 11, 2016

Learning styles is a term used to refer to the methods of gathering, processing, interpreting, organizing, and thinking about information. (Marcy, 2001) In 1987 Dr. Neil D. Fleming, an educator of more than 40 years created VARK, an acronym for visual, aural, read/write, and kinesthetic preference modalities. In Fleming's model, learners are identified by whether they have a preference for visual learning (pictures, movies, diagrams), Aural (auditory) learning (music, discussion, lectures), reading and writing (making lists, reading textbooks, taking notes), or kinesthetic learning (movement, experiments, hands-on activities). (Cherry, 2015) Those with a multi-dimensional modal set of VARK...