Everyone learns in a different way and being aware of your learning style will help you to study more effectively. Some students prefer to learn through reading and writing things down whilst others learn by listening to information.
This page provides you with an introduction to different learning approaches and links to questionnaires for you to complete to discover your preferred learning style.
VARK is one of the methods that has been created to identify the different learning approaches. The different learning styles are identified as:
| Visual | learn from looking at information such as diagrams and videos |
| Auditory | learn from listening to information such as lecture recordings and podcasts |
| Read/Write | learn from written information such as books and handouts |
| Kinaesthetic | learn from being physically involved in a task such as demonstrations and case studies |
| Multimodal | do not have a strong preference towards one particular learning strategy and use different learning styles according to the learning experience |
Click on the link below to access the VARK questionnaire and answer the questions to identify your preferred learning approach.
Peter Honey and Alan Mumford developed Kolb's learning styles model to identify the following four different learning approaches:
| Activist | learn from actively being involved in new experiences and they enjoy solving problems |
| Reflector | learn from observing, listening and thinking about ideas and experiences to create their own conclusion |
| Theorist | learn from analysing models where they can investigate the connections between different ideas |
| Pragmatist | learn from having opportunities to put into practice the information they have been taught |
Learning Styles Questionnaire (The Institute of Legal Finance & Management)
