Learning Techniques: Importance in Education and Healthcare Promotion

Running head: LEARNING TECHNIQUES
LEARNING TECHNIQUES
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author’s Note:

1LEARNING TECHNIQUES
Learning style of an individual is dependent on that particular individual’s approach
to learning for a particular situation. Learning is generally includes interpreting, organising
and processing of information required to learn a particular skill or techniques and each
individuals have different way of processing those information. Hence, each individual has
different preferred learning method. Learning style is commonly divided into four prominent
categories which are known as Visual, Auditory or Aural, Read or Write and Kinaesthetic.
Apart from this there is also a mix or multimodal technique. Multimodal technique is where
an individual does not dominantly prefer one particular categories amongst Visual, Auditory
or Aural, Read or Write and Kinaesthetic and prefer to use more than one category to learn a
particular technique or skill (Shah et al., 2017). In this essay, preferred learning style of the
author according to VARK questionnaire, preferred learning style, importance of learning
techniques in educational sector for both the learner and teacher, and how learning techniques
affect the behavioural changes of an individual and health promotion will be discussed.
VARK acronym attributes to the parameters Visual, Auditory or Aural, Read or Write
and Kinaesthetic and it is model to determine an individual’s preferred learning technique.
This model was first suggested by Fleming and Mills in 1992 (Zhang, 2016). In VARK, five
learning techniques have generally been allocated to the persons who took the VARK
questionnaire. After taking the VARK questionnaire, the score obtained by me was as
following: Visual- 8, Aural or Auditory – 8, Read or Write – 8 and Kinaesthetic – 7. The
above result suggest that my learning techniques does not predominantly dependent on a
particular categories as I like to take help from all the categories to learn a particular skill or
techniques. As a direct consequences, my preferred learning technique suggested by the
VARK was multimodal strategies. The result does not come as a surprise to me as from the
childhood I have always been dependent on the all the categories to learn a skill or technique.
Thus, my learning technique deduced by VARK is same as my preferred learning techniques.