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HOW TO ACCESS YOUR
Learning
Style Analysis - Adult
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Iowa Lakes Community College’s mission to
provide opportunities for quality lifelong learning is realized with Learning
Style Analysis as it ensures that each student that comes to Iowa Lakes
Community College will have the opportunity to develop the skills to optimize
his/her learning.
Enhance educational success...
... by discovering how students learn
best.
LSA reveals ... each
student's unique combination of style features.
LSA shows ... how to rearrange the learning environment to get better
results.
LSA provides ... guidelines for helping students concentrate better and
learn most successfully.
LSA adapts ... to the specific needs of three age groups -
LSA-Junior for students aged 6-12 years
LSA-Senior for students aged 12-16/17 years
LSA-Adult for students over 17 years.
Enhance the power to educate...
... by discovering how a teacher
teaches best.
TSA reveals... each teacher's
unique combination of style elements.
TSA shows ... how to rearrange the learning environment to get better
results.
TSA helps matching ... the specific needs of students and their
teachers during the learning process.
The LSA assesses 49 individual elements in
the following six basic areas that are represented as layers of a pyramid. The
first four of these layers seem to be biologically or genetically determined
and the last two conditioned or learned:
LEFT/RIGHT
BRAIN DOMINANCE:
Showing sequential or simultaneous brain processing strategies reflective
or impulsive thinking style and overall analytic or holistic/global learning
styles.
SENSORY
MODALITIES:
Including auditory (hearing, talking, inner dialogue) visual (reading,
seeing, visualizing) tactile (manipulating, touching) and kinesthetic (doing,
feeling) preferences
PHYSICAL
NEEDS:
Identifying needs for mobility (preferences for moving or being
stationary), intake (eating, nibbling, drinking, chewing, smoking) and time of
day preferences (personal bio rhythm)
ENVIRONMENT:
Revealing preferences for sound (needing music/sound or wanting it quiet), light
(needing bright or dim lighting) temperature (needing a cool or warm
environment) and work area (wanting formal or informal/comfortable setting)
SOCIAL
GROUPINGS:
Including preferences for working alone, in a pair, with peers, or in a
team, and authority (wanting to learn with a teacher or a parent/guardian or
not)
ATTITUDES:
Showing motivation (internally or externally motivated for learning) persistence
(high, fluctuating, or low), conformity (conforming or
non-conforming/rebellious), structure (being self-directed or needing
directions, guidance from others) variety (needing routine/constancy or
changes/variety)
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