Learning Styles and their Impact on Academic Success

Running head: LEARNING STYLES
Learning Styles and their Impact on Academic Success
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LEARNING STYLES 1
Learning Styles and their Impact on Academic Success
Learning styles and preferences play a significant role in a person’s academic success and
career fulfillment. Scholars have established that learning styles and preferences vary among
people, creating a need for teachers and learners to understand the most suitable process of
acquiring knowledge from learning activities. Learning styles have been defined as individual’s
method of acquiring and processing information when in an environment that fosters the
acquisition of knowledge. Even though it is established that learning styles were not studied until
1970s, the style of learning has evolved in the recent past to the point where different models
have been developed to help in evaluating and determining the best learning style that suit’s each
person. VARK questionnaire is among the tools that have been developed to help people
evaluate and understand their learning preferences. This paper presents an analysis of my results
from the VARK questionnaire.
Summary of my VARK Results
I had the following results upon taking the VARK questionnaire test to determine my
learning styles and preferences. I scored thirteen for visual, ten for aural, fifteen for read and
write, and thirteen for kinesthetic. Read/write had the highest scores of fifteen, followed by
kinesthetic and visual respectively. The high score in visual and read/write indicate that I can
attain significant achievement in learning when I reinforce my preferred modes of learning as per
these results. According to Almigbal (2015), a higher visual score indicates that one can learn
well using visual presentations such as pictures, diagrams, tables, and other forms that reinforce
visual cues. Bhagat, Vyas, and Singh (2015) further define visual learning style as a learning
style associated with images. As a result, people with visual learning preference find it easy
absorbing and processing information from images compared to other forms of learning.