Learning Styles And Research Methods Connection (Pdf)

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How Your Learning Style Can Affect Your Preferred Method of Research Gathering Presented by: Nichole Hertel EDRS 8380 Research Methods in Education Dr. Lilla Ruban, instructor

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How Your Learning Style Can Affect Your Preferred Method of Research

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How Your Learning Style Can Affect

Your Preferred Method of Research

Gathering

Presented by: Nichole Hertel

EDRS 8380 Research Methods in Education

Dr. Lilla Ruban, instructor

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To understand that your inherent learning

style will shape what research collection

method(s) you will be drawn to when

gathering data for inclusion in collegiate

research papers.

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Something Funny This Way Comes

Group Activities – 10 minutes

Class Discussion – 3 minutes

Learning Styles – 12 minutes

So, What’s the Connection? – 5 minutes

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Professor

Time vs.

Grad

Student

Time

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Group #1 - Out of the Box

Creative Name Tag

Group #2 - Meet your Classmates

Who’s-in-the-Group-Form

Group #3 - Personal Interview

Getting to Know You

Group #4 - Think Way Outside the Box

No Talking

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Questions to think about…

What did I like about this activity? Why?

What did I not like about this activity? Why?

What did I learn?

Overall, how do I think this connects to learning

styles?

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Types of Learning Styles Assessments:

Self-directed personal assessment

Informal and formal

Administered/regulated assessment

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Learning Style Self-Assessment

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Learning Styles Self Assessment

Column A – Tactile Learners

(aka Kinesthetic Learners)

Column B – Auditory

Learners

Column C – Visual Learners

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Questions to consider?

What learning style are you?

Why is it important to know how you learn best?

What group activity from before would the tactile

learners gravitate toward? Why?

What group activity from before would the

auditory learners gravitate toward? Why?

What group activity from before would the visual

learners gravitate toward? Why?

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Ways of Knowing

Ways to Obtain Information

Sensory experience

Agreement with others

Expert opinion

Logic

The scientific method

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Types of Research

Commonly Used Research Methodologies:

Experimental research

Correlational research

Casual-comparative research

Survey research

Ethnographic research

Historical research

Action research

Case Study

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What methods are you drawn to?

How does that connect with your learning

style?

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Fraenkel, J. R., & Wallen, N. E. (2009). How

to design and evaluate research in

education (7th ed.). Boston: McGraw-Hill

Higher Education.

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