Journal Reflection: Learning Style Inventory

Journal Reflection: Learning Inventory results

            Before I gave the learning style inventory to my class I assumed that the majority of them would be visual learners.  After all, television is a visual medium.  I found the learning style inventory that I selected to use at the NJEA website.  I looked through a number of different ones, but opted for this one because it seemed to ask questions more geared towards high school age students.  Many of the other ones included questions that were aimed at younger children.

            The inventory asked a total of twenty-four questions.  The students were asked to rate if the question related to them often, sometimes, or seldom.  After they answered all the questions they assigned a point value to each.  If they answered “often” to a question the students assigned five points, for an answer of “sometimes” three points was assigned, and if they responded “seldom” they gave it one point.  They then totaled up each column and the one with the highest point total indicated their learning style.

            Twenty-three students took the inventory (one student was absent the day it was given) and a total of sixteen were classified as visual learners.  Six students were auditory learners and four were tactile learners.  Among the visual learners there were also a couple that scored almost as high in the tactile category as the visual category.  So it looks like my initial assumption was correct. 

            One of the reasons that I thought most students would be visual learners in the first place is that as I said earlier, television is a visual medium, and therefore the majority of students drawn to taking a TV Production class probably have a distinct interest in television.  In the Advanced TV Production class, I always introduce a project by talking about and describing what they need to do.  However, I think they really understand what is being asked of them after I show them some examples of previous projects.  Another example is when we critique our shows after broadcast.  The biggest criticism they have is always to how something looks.

            The last step for me was to take the learning inventory myself.  The result…a tie between visual and auditory.  My first thought was that maybe I added wrong, or put the score in the wrong question.  However after thinking about it, I think this is just right for me.  You can learn a lot by just watching and listening.