This self-contained module for assessing student learning styles has wide applicability, and is simple and easy to use. After taking the survey on-line, students receive instant results in the form of a profile of their dominant learning styles. The results page has links to the author?s website, which provides additional information on learning styles.
Identify Major Learning Goals:
This tool could be used by instructors at the start of their course, especially if they are employing teams or student-learning groups.
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both face-to-face and fully on-line courses
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This tool could be used by instructors at the start of their course, especially if they are employing teams or student-learning groups.
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none
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
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As stated above, this module has wide applicability and can be used as an effective teaching-learning tool for student?s to assess their learning styles. It can also be easily integrated into an instructor?s class at the start of a semester, and will work well in both face-to-face and fully on-line courses. The assignment that is provided on MERLOT is targeted to classes that use group projects or student-learning teams, but other assignments can easily be written for this module. The authors of this module provide a wealth of information and examples on how they have applied their assessment of learning styles in their own classes, which other instructors will find useful.
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Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty
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The survey is taken on-line, and the results are received as soon as one submits their responses. The results can easily be printed out. The results page could be improved by adding colors to the graphs; but as far as useability is concerned, the module is scores high on this dimension.
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none
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