Learning+Survey

How Do You Learn?
Steve Maslanek When teachers know how their students learn best, they can design instruction that benefits all students. Knowing their own learning profile can help students become better learners, because they will be able to adjust their interaction with new material in order to understand and retain it.

Interest survey []

This interest survey is made up of 15 questions that students can answer about themselves. Some of the following questions asks students some of their favorite things along with the types of activities they prefer to do in class. This survey gives educators valuable information on their students interests as well as their home lives. This interest survey will gather data analysis that allows teachers to find out what their students likes and dislikes are in order to engage them in the classroom setting.

Learning styles survey []

This survey allows the teacher to gain a better understanding of the learner. Students need to evaluate the way they prefer to learn or process information. By doing so, the teacher will be able to develop strategies which will enhance their learning potential. The survey is a quick way of assessing your learning style. Multiple intelligences survey []

This multiple intelligences survey asks students to rate their strengths on each multiple intelligence category designed from Gardner's multilple intelligences. Students then calculate their score and plot a line graph. This would be great for high school students because it allows them to read through their results immediately and they work on their graphing skills.

Learning profile inventory

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TRICIA MORGAN'S INFORMATION Learning profiles encompass a variety of categories that are assessed, such as gender, culture, learning style, and intelligence preference. It has a variety of questions asking questions about students' lives, how they learn best, and their thoughts about each subject. This information can be used to help to get to know the students a little bit better and how they will learn.


 * Interest survey **: Virginia Career VIEW was created by Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, a very popular university located in Blacksburg, VA. The website is intended to help students explore careers and determine what professional course they might like to pursue in the future. Students are to complete a career and family survey that is comprised of 17 pages. Each page focuses on a specific career area, such as business, human services, or education and training. There is a list of typical job responsibilities from those professional areas and students are to choose whether or not they would like to perform those activities by putting a check in the box of the ones that are of interest to them. Once the student has completed all pages, the results are presented. The career area where the student made the most selections is linked to a webpage where they can explore various careers in relation to that area of interest.

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Learning Styles survey: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Edutopia’s learning style survey is comprised of 24 questions. Students are asked to respond to statements describing daily activities and interests with the first thought that comes to mind. Once completed, students’ results are categorized into the following learning styles: linguistic, logical, visual, intrapersonal, interpersonal, musical, kinesthetic, and naturalistic. Students are taken to a link that describes that learning style.

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Multiple Intelligences survey: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Birmingham Grid for Learning (BGIL) consists of 40 statements that ask students to identify to what extent they agree with each statement. Once completed the results are presented in a pie graph and identifies which area of intelligences they perform the strongest in. The website is:

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Learning Profile Inventory: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Abiator’s online learning styles inventory 2 asks students to check all statements that they feel are true about themselves as a learner. The results are presented by a line bar containing visual, tactile, and auditory modalities. The longer the learning style bar, the more the student prefers that particular mode of learning. The website is:

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= Brian Semple's Information (WK 2 Learning Community Discussion) =

Interest survey: daretodifferentiate.wikispaces.com/.../Elementary+**Interest**+**Survey**+2.doc ‎

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These two Interest Surveys were similar in a lot of ways. The first one was designated as an interest survey for elementary students, but it seemed like it would work for student’s middle school age as well with a little tweaking. Both seemed like great tools for having students share more about themselves, and a great way for teachers to gain insights into their students that might otherwise take the full school year, or not happen at all. The second survey asks students more about their lives at home, which could benefit a teacher greatly, because understanding the dynamic at home can explain a lot.

Learning Style Survey

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The learning style survey that I looked at seemed like it would work well for students in middle school or higher. The survey has students marking off sometimes, often, or seldom for a series of questions. Depending on what students select for each question effects what their scores will be for the following categories: auditory, visual, and tactile. Determining their totals for each of these can help teachers to determine the areas that students are most/least comfortable learning with. They also provide a second survey that has students look at statements under each of the modalities that can help an educator determine what types of learning styles best meet the needs of their students, or it allows them to build lessons around multiple modalities to hit on the different strengths that exist within a diverse classroom.

Multiple Intelligences Survey

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This survey has students looking at a number of different statements, and the question that they are being asked is, “Which of the following are true about you?” This survey is supposed to be used for students in the intermediate grades. The greatest thing about this survey is that she provides guidelines for how she believes you can best administer this survey to your students. Students are expected to look at each statement and put a score of 0-5, with 0 being not at all, and 5 being very true. Once students have put their scores in next to the statement they are then able to put their score within the different intelligences categories to be totaled at the bottom. The creator of the survey put a disclaimer with it, because as she put it the “the results are only as accurate as students are able to reflect on their skills honestly”, and this might not always be the case. She also expresses that a low score in any of the categories does not mean that this area is a weakness for the student, but rather an area that the student needs to grow in, and possibly gain more experience in.

Learning Profile Inventory

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The Learning Profile Inventory survey that I found is very direct with its questions, and focuses on finding out more about strengths and weaknesses that students believe they have in school. I think that if students feel that they are weak in certain areas, these are probably the main areas that need to be focused on by classroom teachers to help them improve. It will help you determine if students work better alone, or in small groups. It also gives teachers insights into which subjects students believe they are good at, as well as the classes or subjects they know they will need more help in. This survey should be good for students of any age, and it also gives students the opportunity to set their own goals for the school year.

Let me try to put it here... from Betty Smazenko

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #404040; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">“The concept of learning profile is an umbrella term for a body of research suggesting four categories of influence on how people approach learning” (Tomlinson, 2012). These four categories are gender, culture, learning style and intelligent preferences. An important thing to remember is that not all students learn the same in every situation. That is one reason teaching is so challenging and we have to be prepared for any and every situation as much as possible. The more we are aware of how our students learn, and how to adapt to those variances, the more successful our students will be and we will have the satisfaction knowing we have done our best.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #404040; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">It is also helpful if a teacher finds what their own learning profiles consists of. This will help keep us focused and not solely teach in the way we feel most comfortable. We need to be aware of the many different ways our students learn, and then find ways to accommodate the needs of our students.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #404040; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I have found the following examples of what is included in a learning profile. All of these would be suitable for upper elementary grade levels.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #404040; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Interest Survey: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #3b5998; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">[]

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #404040; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">This survey asks questions about the student’s home life, hobbies, activities, and school. This will be used by the teacher to gain a better understanding of the student and how to better customize their learning. “When students sense their teachers know them and are attentive to their interests and needs, they are more likely to accept the risk involved in real learning” (Tomlinson, 2009).

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #404040; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Learning Styles Survey: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #3b5998; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">[]

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #404040; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">This survey covers the areas of the learning styles: Visual, Auditory and Tactile/Kinesthetic. This is another important tool for the teacher to understand their students. What helps your student learn the best according to that particular student? What makes the student feel the most comfortable when they are trying to learn?

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #404040; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Multiple Intelligence (MI) Survey: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #3b5998; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">[]

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #404040; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">This survey describes the genetic predisposition towards an intelligence preference. Dr. Tomlinson reminds us of the eight or nine intelligences: spatial, linguistic, bodily-kinesthetic, musical, logical-mathematical, interpersonal, intrapersonal, naturalist and existential. We all navigate towards particular areas, but we use all of them in our everyday lives (Tomlinson, 2009).

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #404040; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Learning Profile Inventory: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #3b5998; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">[]

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #404040; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">This can be used to put together all of the information in the previous sections in one place and use the data to make a profile of how this student learns the best.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #404040; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I also found this profile card which I thought would be useful and a quick hands-on tool for each student.

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<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #404040; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">My Survey Monkey Learning Profile link: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #3b5998; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">[]

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #404040; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Resources

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #404040; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Tomlinson, C. (2009). Learning Profiles & Achievement. School Administrator, 66(2), 28-24.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #404040; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Tomlinson, C. (2012). Retrieved from <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #3b5998; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">[]


 * Ben Pongracz's Information from Week 2 **

Student Interest Survey: [|__http://www.union.k12.sc.us/ems/Teachers-Forms--Student%20Interest%20Survey.htm__] This interest survey is a brief, printable survey that is mostly appropriate for secondary students. It focuses on information such as what the students are involved in at school, what free time activities they pursue at home, what career they hope to pursue, and what some of their favorite things are. It also provides insights into the students’ values and dreams as they answer questions about those they admire, what kind of friends they choose, and what intrigues them. Knowing students' interests can provide a teacher with the information needed to motivate their students more (Laureate Education, Inc., 2010). The data collected from this survey can be used to inform what topics are discussed or how concepts can be related to the real world. It will also provide the instructor with useful information for creating engaging projects.

Multiple Intelligence Survey: [|__http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks3/ict/multiple_int/index.htm__] This web-based test can be used to help students see where their intelligence preferences are strongest and weakest, and can be used in most grade levels. Students answer a couple questions about their gender, age, and location, and then answer forty of questions about themselves. They answer in the form of a Likert scale, ranging from “This does not describe me at all.” to “I am always like this.” After they have answered the forty questions, they are shown their results on a polar bar graph, where each section corresponds to one of the eight intelligence preferences. Their results can be recalled at any time by entering the code provided into the “Results” page. This would be a great tool for class as a teacher would be able to view any students data at any time as long as the students were directed to record their code when they finished the test. This information will inform the teacher about the level of engagement various activities will elicit from different students. It may also provide ideas for assessment products and project ideas.

Learning Style Inventory: [|__http://www.personal.psu.edu/bxb11/LSI/LSI.htm#ShowResults__] This is a short and simple learning style inventory wherein students answer 24 questions about themselves on a scale of seldom, sometimes, and often. The survey uses the data to determine whether the student is most predominantly a visual learner, auditory learner, or a kinesthetic learner. Although it is useful for determining the student’s strongest learning preference, it does not reveal how that preference compares to the other learning modalities. This data should help inform the mode of instruction, encouraging the teacher to provide learning opportunities for all three modalities.

Learning Profile Survey: [|__http://www.tecweb.org/styles/canfield1.html__] This survey requires students to answer 30 questions, ranking four items from one to four in each question regarding themselves and their learning preferences. When they have finished, students tally up each item they ranked under the categories of condition, content, mode, and expectancy. Under condition, students can score to show their preferences in different categories, consisting of peer, organization, goal-setting, competition, instructor, detail, independence, and authority. These describe the atmosphere and environment in which the student prefers to learn. Content describes what type of material the student prefers and includes numeric, qualitative, inanimate, and people. Mode describes the students preferred learning modality and consists of listening, reading, iconic, and direct experience. Each of the subcategories are defined clearly at the end of the survey. Each of these preferences provides a more complete picture of the students' learning profiles, describing how they learn best (Laureate Education, Inc., 2010). The final category, expectancy, pertains to how well a student expects to do in various situations and gauges students’ levels of self-confidence. This survey is a little lengthy, and requires students to calculate their results by hand, but may prove to be very insightful. This survey would be more suited towards secondary students.

My own student survey: [|__http://benpongo.polldaddy.com/s/student-survey__] <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">References Birmingham Grid for Learning. (2013). //Multiple intelligences//. Retrieved from __[]__ <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Bixler, B. (2010). // <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Learning style inventory. // <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> Retrieved from __[|http://www.personal.psu.edu/bxb11/LSI/LSI.htm#ShowResults]__ Larueate Education, Inc. (2010). //Learning differences// [Video webcast]. Retrieved from __[|www.courseurl.com]__. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">The Education Coalition. (n.d.). //<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Canfield's learning styles inventory. //<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> Retrieved from __[]__ <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Union County Schools. (2010). //<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Student interest survey //<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">. Retrieved from __[]__