Monday 24 January 2011

Learning Style Survey

Our first Design studies task was to take a questionnaire and it determines what kind of learner you are, whether your an Activist- a person who act before they consider the consequences afterwards, a Reflector - a person who likes to take time to think about things before acting on it, a Theorist - a person who are perfectionist and act rationally and Pragmatist who is someone who likes to seek out new ideas and use in practice.
Before taking this test I looked at the four types of learners and I put myself down as a Reflector because im the type of person who likes to write lists and plans. I feel it gives me a line of thought and I find it easier to work this way. I could also see how i could be a but of each because I do ask questions such as Will that work? and that makes me a bit of a theorist and I do like to try out new ideas and I do them quite quickly which makes me a bit pragmatic.
After taking the test I found that I scored very high on Reflector and Pragmatist and moderate on activist and theorist. the results was spot on with my learner behaviour as I thought i had qualities from all learning types.


Our second task was to guess what our group members styles of learning and to see whether we got each other right and also to see if our group was balanced and if not what we could do so that there weren't too many of one style. From our guesses on each other, we had each other 80% correct so we had a rough idea on each others way of working even from the short time we had together.We found that our group was very balanced, we had 1 Activist, 3 reflectors, 2 pragmatists and 2 theorists. I feel this has worked out well for our group as we have high qualities from each learning type and we can learn from each others qualities. It has also worked well in that each person could work on different areas of group tasks.