Learning Styles Table

This chart helps you determine your learning style; read the word in the left column and then answer the questions in the successive three columns to see how you respond to each situation. Your answers may fall into all three columns, but one column will likely contain the most answers. The dominant column indicates your primary learning style.

When you.. Visual Auditory Kinesthetic & Tactile Do you sound out the Do you try to see the Do you write the word down to Spell word or use a phonetic word? find if it feels right? approach? Do you sparingly but Do you enjoy listening Do you gesture and use dislike listening for too but are impatient to expressive movements? Do you Talk long? Do you favor words talk? Do you use use words such as feel, touch, such as see, picture, and words such as hear, and hold? imagine? tune, and think? Do you become distracted Do you become Do you become distracted by Concentrate by untidiness or distracted by sounds activity around you? movement? or noises? Do you forget names but Do you forget faces Meet someone remember faces or but remember names Do you remember best what you again remember where you or remember what you did together? met? talked about? Do you prefer direct, Do you talk with them while Contact people Do you prefer the face-to-face, personal walking or participating in an telephone? on business meetings? activity? Do you enjoy dialog Do you like descriptive and conversation or Do you prefer action stories or Read scenes or pause to hear the characters are not a keen reader? imagine the actions? talk? Do you prefer verbal Do you like to see Do something instructions or talking Do you prefer to jump right in demonstrations, diagrams, about it with someone and try it? new at work slides, or posters? else? Do you look at the Do You ONLY read Put something Do you ignore the directions and directions and the directions and NOT figure it out as you go along? together picture? look at pictures? Need help with Do you call the help Do you seek out pictures desk, ask a neighbor, Do you keep trying to do it or a computer or diagrams? or growl at the try it on another computer? application computer?

Adapted from Colin Rose(1987). Accelerated Learning.