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Interpreting the Perceptual Preference Form

Your perceptual preference can indicate through which channel to your brain information flows most easily. Information that you receive through your preferred channels is more quickly understood and more easily remembered. Arrange your academic life to take advantage of your best channels.

Your Highest Total is for Auditory (Score: 32)You learn from hearing words spoken, from oral explanations, or sounds. You may remember information by reading aloud or moving your lips as you read, especially when your are learning new material. You benefit from hearing audio tapes, lectures, and discussions. You benefit from making tapes (like audio flash cards) of information to listen to, by teaching or discussing with other students, and by conversing with your teacher. Reading your lecture notes aloud while studying will also help.

Your Second Highest Total is for Visual (Score: 32)You learn well from seeing the information in graphic form or as words in books, on the chalkboard, and in workbooks. You remember and understand information and instructions better if you read them or see them as visual representations using diagrams or colors. You don’t need as much oral explanation as an auditory learner, and you can often learn alone, with a book or re-interpreting information into a visual representation. You should take notes of lectures and oral directions in word or diagram form to best understand and remember the information.

Your Lowest Total is for Tactile (Score: 28)You learn best by experience or “hands-on” activity, by being involved physically in classroom experiences. You remember information well when you actively participate in activities, field trips, and role-playing in the classroom, or working on experiments in a laboratory, handling and building models, and touching and working with materials. Writing notes or instructions, or a combination of stimuli — for example, an audiotape combined with an activity (such as, listen to summary tapes you’ve made while you jog), or making flashcards — will help you understand and remember new material

If your highest scores are in more than one area:
You can learn in more than one way. Try combining study methods.

If you have a very low score in one area:
You may have difficulty learning in that way. Direct you leaning to your stronger styles by redirecting the information coming in on a weak channel to another channel, or studying information that came in on the weak channel by using a stronger channel. For instance, a poor auditory learner should read or take notes on the book chapter first, before the lecture on that topic. Another solution might be to try to work on some of the skills to strengthen your learning style in the low area.

This explanation was adapted by Anne Wilcox, Academic Advancement Center, Colorado State University, from the C.I.T.E Learning Styles Instrument, at Murdoch Teacher Center, Wichita, Kansas 67208. Online adaptation for Academic Advancement Center by Ben Rubenstein. Further online adaptation for the Help Success Center (now Collaborative for Student Achievement) by Erin Rosar.

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