I wanted to find the most beneficial method for students to understand their writing revisions.
Based on their learning styles tendencies, I compared the their VAK Learning Styles Self-Assessment Questionnaire (Swinburne University of Technology) results with their method of submission (online or in-person) to the Writing Center.
Those with visual learning tendencies 15% submitted online and 15% in-person. By highlighting errors, online revisions appeal to visual tendencies. Those with auditory learning tendencies 7% submitted in-person compared to 11% who submitted online. These tendencies can benefit from either online or in-person by reading edited notes out loud. Those with kinesthetic learning tendencies, 31% submitted in-person, while 8% submitted online. With Writing Center tutors, students with kinesthetic learning tendencies preferred the face-to-face interaction.
For the future, students will be encouraged to submit papers, either online or in-person, to the Writing Center based on their learning style tendencies.
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HI Catherine, This is an interesting project. Great idea to allow students to submit work based on their learning styles. Will you be doing more research connecting learning styles to other aspects of the course. I find this fascinating. Thanks for sharing, Olga
I like that you referred to the learning styles as "tendencies," since we know that we all are a combination of all learning styles! I also like how you learned from this and will incorporate it in the future. It is also great that students will be assessing themselves, and using the writing center accordingly. Good stuff!
I like that you referred to the Learning Styles as "tendencies," since we know we all are a combination of all the styles, just in different amounts. The best part of this is that you are guiding students to assess the best method for them to interact with the Writing Center!
This is very interesting. I always encourage my students to go to the writing center in person. I always felt that they got better feedback and there was a quick turn-around. I will definitely keep this in mind moving forward.
This s a great way to have students take control of their learning and use their "tendencies". I would like to give this a try in English courses.
Thanks for sharing.