Learning Styles Questionnaire

Learning Styles Questionnaire

The VAK learning styles model suggests that most people can be divided into one of three preferred styles of learning. These three styles are explained at the end of this form. There are no right or wrong learning styles, your answers allow your Tutor/Assessor to adjust your training to suit your needs.

For each question please select the statement that best describes what you would do:

Someone with a VISUAL Learning style has a preference for seen or observed things, including pictures, diagrams, demonstrations, displays, handouts, films, flip-charts etc. These people will use phrases such as 'show me', 'let's have a look at that' and will be best able to perform a new task after reading the instructions or watching someone else do it first. These are the people who will work from lists and written directions and instructions.

Someone with an AUDITORY learning style has a preference for the transfer of information through listening: to spoken word, of self or others, of sounds and noises. These people will use phrases such as 'tell me', 'let's talk it over' and will be best able to perform a new task after listening to instructions from an expert. These are the people who are happy being given instructions over the telephone and can remember all the words to the songs they hear.

Someone with a KINAESTHETIC learning style has a preference for physical experience, touching, feeling, holding, doing, practical hands-on experiences. These people will use phrases such as 'let me try', 'how do you feel?' and will be best able to perform a new task by going ahead and trying it out, learning as they go. These are the people who like to experiment, and never look at instructions first.

People commonly have a main preferred learning style but this will be part of a blend of all three. Some people have a very strong preference; others have a more even mixture of two or less commonly, three styles.