What is Your Learning Style?

Morgan Stahl, Mera Caulfield and John Humphrey

Professor Lewallen MW 3:05

EDT180A: Group A9

April 17th, 2017

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Our research topic was learning styles. There are multiple different learning

styles but the ones we focused on were linguistic, logical-mathematical, bodily-

kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal and intrapersonal. We asked questions to compare

ones learning style to other factors such as GPA or gender. The questions we surveyed

were: How often is your learning style utilized in your classes? What is your gender?

What college is your major in? Do you play an instrument? Do you play sports?

What is your GPA? All of these questions can relate to learning style and how well a

student succeeds. To survey these questions and get real answers from real students,

we used google forms which allows you to create quizzes, surveys, and other

questionnaires. We received 124 responses total from students at Arizona State

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University.

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Our first questions was What is your learning style? We provided descriptions

of each learning style and allowed students to select which one fits them best. Majority

of students chose Linguistic learning style was means communicating and interpreting

knowledge and information through language. This learning style is learning through a

speaker or lecture. The learning style selected the least was musical. One of our

questions asked if the student played an instrument and majority said no. This

correlates to the musical learning style being the least chosen learning style.

The next question we asked was How often is your learning style utilized?

Surprisingly, students answered sometimes and almost always more than rarely and

never. This is most likely because the learning style linguistic is used in a lecture class.

This shows that majority of students surveyed saw their learning style presented in the

classroom more often than not. This is a positive display of data however, it would be

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even better if more students found their learning style used almost always rather than

rarely or never.

For gender, we were not surprised to see that majority surveyed was females.

This is because most of the teachers college is females and our class is a requirement

for the college. Students only answered female and male, no one fell under the category

of other. Both females and males chose linguistic learning style most, but the females

also choose other styles as well. Barley any of the males chose a different learning

style.

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We asked students to select the ASU college that their major is associated with.

It was not surprising at all that education was the most popular selection. This class is

required for all education majors. We were surprised to see that there were so many

other majors in this class. The second most selected college was arts and sciences.

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The next question we asked was Do you play an instrument? Although majority

said no, there were surprisingly a lot of students who said yes. We asked this question

because one of the learning styles is musical and we wanted to see if this correlated

with students actually playing an instrument.

We also asked Do you play sports? Surprisingly, lots of students answered no.

We really thought a lot more students would be participating in school sports. We asked

this question to see if sports would correlate to learning style and GPA. Because

majority of students dont play sports, we did not find any correlation.

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Our last question was What is your GPA? By asking this, we can figure out if

the learning style and how often it is utilized relates to GPA. It seems that the lower

GPA, the less likely the student chose linguistic learning style. However, the B average

students were very spread out in learning style; meaning each learning style had been

chosen by multiple students.

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We compared the learning style chosen to how often the learning style was used

in class. To no surprise, Linguistic had the most frequent response. This is most likely

because lots of college courses are lecture style and linguistic is learning by listening.

You can also see that musical has almost no frequent responses. Logical-Mathematical

also had very little response.

Lastly, we compared GPA and learning style. This was the most important graph

and data analysis because it answers our question. Since linguistic is most common,

students are seeming to succeed. There were only two learning styles, musical and

interpersonal, that had GPAs under 2.0. Intrapersonal and kinesthetic had very

successful students as well.