Learning styles A set of behaviours and attitudes that influence how
students learn and interact with teachers and peers.
Learning styles are cognitive, affective, and
physiological behaviours that serve as indicators of
how learners perceive, interact with, and respond to
the learning environment. For example, for David Kolb
(1984) learning is the process whereby knowledge is
created through the transformation of experience. In
Kolb’s model, learning is based on two continuums,
namely: (a) processing continuum, e.g. approach to a
task, such as preferring to learn by doing (active
experimentation) or watching (reflective observation);
(b) perception continuum, e.g. emotional response,
such as preferring to learn by thinking (abstract
conceptualisation) or feeling (concrete experience).
The four combinations of processing and perceiving
determine one of the learning styles (or learning
preferences) of how individuals prefer to learn.
According to the VAK (Visual, Auditory, and
Kinesthetic – movement –, sometimes known as
VAKT, Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic, and Tactile)
model, learners use these three/four modalities to
receive and learn new information, one or two of these
being normally dominant. An individual may have
several learning styles which can change over time
and according to the learning task.
There are also more elaborate models.
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Learning time Generally the amount of time during which learners are
actively working on tasks and are effectively engaged
in learning. There are different approaches to time in
education. For example, a distinction can be made
between: (a) officially allocated time, which includes
school time (i.e. the total amount of time spent in
school), classroom time (i.e. the amount of time spent
in the classroom), and instructional time (i.e. the
portion of classroom time devoted to the teaching and
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learning of curriculum subjects); (b) engaged time or
time-on-task, which refers to the portion of time during
which students are paying attention to a learning task
and attempting to learn; and (c) academic learning
time, which indicates that portion of engaged time that
students spend working on tasks at an appropriate
level of difficulty for them and experiencing high levels
of success (see, for example, Berliner 1990).
See also ‘Instructional time’.
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