University Seminar

Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligences Core Assignment

 

 

Goal of the Assignment:  To investigate and interpret individual learning styles and multiple intelligences.  From the results of the investigation and interpretation, students will evaluate the tasks of their courses and determine the kinds of learning styles and intelligences that are engaged in each task. Further, based on what each student learned about his or her own learning styles and intelligences, students will demonstrate which strategies would be used in relation to mastering each task.

 

Relationship to General Education Outcomes:

Goal 1: The ability to communicate both in writing and orally.

Goal 2: The skills required to gather, analyze, document, and integrate information.

 

Structure of the Assignment:  For this assignment you will need to do the following:

 

1. Go to the following websites and take the inventories (these are not tests) for Learning Style: http://www.learning-styles-online.com/inventory/questions.asp

 

Multiple Intelligences: http://www.careerccc.org/products/cp_99_e/section1/quiz.cfm

(N.B. There is an underscore in front and behind the “99”)

 

Important: Remember that these are only two forms of measuring and assessing, and the results do not give you a thorough assessment of yourself as a learner and thinker. They are merely a departure for discussion. The best way to complete an inventory is to go with your first impression and not over analyze your response. When you are done, print out your results.

 

2. Explore the above two websites and any others on the topic, remembering to take notes on information that you discover about your particular learning style and intelligence strength.

 

3. Consider a course you are currently enrolled in at NEIU. What are the learning tasks related to that course and what learning style and intelligence areas do they emphasize?  Using the printouts obtained from the two online surveys in #1, record your analysis. Describe a) how you would apply your dominant learning styles and intelligences to master the task ; and b) what specific strategies you can use to succeed on tasks that require learning styles and intelligences that are not your greatest strengths or that represent personal challenges.

 

4. Prepare a presentation regarding one of the tasks or concepts that you have identified in the course you considered.  This presentation should take the form of your strengths in your learning style and intelligence areas and be no more than two to three minutes long. For example, depending on your personal results you may want to present:

 

• A visual/ pictorial representation
• A verbal/ aural representation
• A movement, musical, rhythmic, nature related, mathematical, social or introspective representation

A brief statement will be made prior to the presentation as to what learning style(s) or area(s) of multiple intelligences is being represented.

5. Additionally, you will write a two-page paper addressing the following questions:

 

• What are the results of your inventories?
• Do you think the results confirm ideas about your learning style and intelligence strengths that you might have held?  Or how does this help you understand why you have had certain successes or challenges in learning?
• How does your presentation relate to what you discovered about your learning style and intelligence strength?
• What learning style and intelligence challenges have you identified?
• What strategies have you identified that will help you succeed on course tasks that provide challenges to your learning styles and intelligences?
• Are there tasks in which working together with other students in a cooperative or collaborative group would be helpful to you? Are there times when working alone would be more productive? Describe and explain.
• How might you apply what you have discovered about yourself in regard to learning style and intelligence to what tasks college will demand of you?

 

Along with an introduction, transitions and a conclusion, think of answers to the above question(s) as forming your paragraphs.   Please attach your printed results from the online inventories and notes that you recorded with the paper.

 

For this assignment only, the points will be calculated as follows:

 

A	46 – 50 Points
B	41 – 45 Points
C	36 – 40 Points
D	31 – 35 Points
F	30 Points or fewer

 

See the Scoring Criteria for a breakdown of points.

 

Scoring Criteria for the Assignment on Learning Styles

50 Points Possible

Course Task Analysis	Emerging	Competent	Proficient
At least 5 tasks were analyzed accurately as to learning style required by or engaged in the task.	1         2	3         4	5         6
At least 5 tasks were analyzed accurately as to intelligence (s) required by or engaged in the task.	1         2	3         4	5         6
Strategies described for succeeding at learning or mastering course tasks were appropriate to the strengths identified in the students inventory results on learning style and intelligences	1         2	3         4	5         6
Strategies described for succeeding at learning or mastering each course task were appropriate to addressing the challenges identified in the students inventory results on learning styles and intelligences.	1         2	3         4	5         6
Demonstration
Were a description of the learning style and/or area of intelligence given prior to the presentation that the concept was understood?	1         2	3         4	5         6
Did the presentation represent the learning style and/or the area of intelligence that was described?	1         2	3         4	5         6
Paper
Was the paper typed, double spaced, stapled and titled?	1	2         3	4
Did the paper address the questions presented in the assignment?	1         2	3         4	5         6
Did the paper include the inventory results and the information from the course task analysis?	1	2         3	4
Total Points