VARK is a questionnaire that, when completed, will allow an individual to view how they learn best, based on the answers they provided. VARK stands for visual, aural, read/write, and kinesthetic. It’s acronym comes from the type of learning style that the questionnaire will match you will after answering sixteen questions. It is essentially a guide to learning styles, not a learning style itself considering that actual learning styles have over eighteen dimensions. VARK allows people to do something with the information they receive; changing the way they study or read.
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To measure accuracy, VARK asks users to determine if their profile matches their perception and over 58% believe it matched. Although perceptions are said to be unreliable, the results still support the validity of the questionnaire. With only 16 questions, the VARK questionnaire narrows down the subject matter and allows people to stay focused, rather then get bored with the survey.
VARK finds differences in the learning styles of men and woman, teachers and students, and even different careers simply by which answers a person chooses. The database has had 200,000 surveys taken in September 2010 and was expected to reach a million by the end of 2010.
Simply put, VARK is a quick and easy evaluation of an individual’s preferred learning style. It gets you to think about the process of learning. Like anything else learning takes time, but knowing how you learn specifically, can help.
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