Module 7 - Learning Style Test

As part of this week's required readings, we were asked to take a learning style test. I must admit that I was not at all surprised by my results. My primary style of learning is aural and my secondary style is social.

As someone who is a musician and someone who possesses really strong interpersonal skills, the results make perfect sense. The only aspect that was a little shocking was that visual learning was not higher up on my list of results and that logical learning was scored really low.

So, here are the results: Aural (20), Social (16), Physical (14), Verbal (13), Visual (12), Solitary (8) and Logical (7).

There were three main issues that created a lot of chatter on our blackboard discussion thread:

• The test seemed to reveal its own limitations in the way it posed direct questions
• The test would have been better if it has used a more detailed method of measuring responses
• The results could easily have been tainted by the individual's own self-perceptions

With that being said, I would recommend taking this learning test, along with other available tests like Myers-Briggs, in order to get a well-rounded understanding of personal traits, strengths and weaknesses, and potential.

A side note on perceptions, expectations and personal filters:

Trying to live up to expectations, either placed on us by ourselves or placed on us by other people, can be very damaging. As well, perceptions are often based on inaccurate notions and can severely limit one's own potential in life.

In a way, both perceptions and expectations remind me of personal filters. Truly understanding communicative, social or environmental filters is the first step in determining one's own direction (or lack there of) in life.