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Study Strategies for Different Learning Styles

 

PEOPLE WHO LEARN BY SEEING

  • Benefit from maps, infographics, and other visual representations
  • Find color coding useful
  • Like to develop their own note-taking layouts
  • Learn better when they associate an image with an idea or fact

 

 

 

PEOPLE WHO LEARN BY HEARING

  • Enjoy the use of rhythm, rhyme, and music in learning
  • Benefit from having background music on while studying
  • Can associate certain sounds with different kinds of information (e.g.,
    shaking a bell while reciting the steps in the cell division process)
  • Improve test performance by listening to music or sounds associated
    with a subject before taking a test in that subject

 

 

PEOPLE WHO LEARN BY TALKING AND WRITING

  • Benefit from the “classics” of studying: writing, re-writing, re-phrasing, and saying things repeatedly
  • Love to read content aloud, improving recall by associating a dramatic inflection with a certain piece of information
  • Do well with role-playing activities

 

 

PEOPLE WHO LEARN BY DOING

  • Can associate certain movements with information (e.g., “Hop on one foot when spelling this week’s words! Hop on the other foot to repeat the syllable rules that go with those words!”)
  • Love to build things: making physical representations of concepts helps them learn
  • Use physical games, such as passing a ball back and forth, to help them improve recall

 

 

PEOPLE WHO LEARN BY PUZZLING

  • Learn best when told the reasons behind what’s taught
  • Love to ask, and discover answers to, questions
  • Benefit from study rituals and routines that are the same every time
  • See the “big picture,” but sometimes have a hard time with details