Personal Learning Style

My learning style is predominately Sequential. Sequential learners tend to gain understanding in linear steps, with each step following logically from the previous one. They tend to follow logical stepwise paths in finding solutions rather than focus on the overall picture and make leaps to conclusions.

Sequential learners are disadvantaged if the course content is illogical and focusing on big pictures and conclusions.

For me, if lecturers are vague and focussed on solving problems without addressing the intricacies of the issue, I feel disorientated and unable to learn. Teachers that do this are usually poorly organised or focussed on Global learning styles (the opposite of Sequential learning).

ICT implications for sequential learning would include using step-by-step processes including PowerPoint presentations and other activities where the user controls the speed and amount of learning taking place at each moment, before moving on. 

I believe this test accurately reflects my learning style and is a correct identification of my habitual learning. I would recommend this test to students I teach as a way of early profiling.

A description of the learning styles put forward by Felder and Soloman can be found here.

The learning styles questionnaire can be done here.