The document discusses how an individual's learning style can influence their preferred method for gathering research. It provides an overview of different learning styles like visual, auditory, and tactile learners. The document also outlines common research methodologies and suggests that a person may be drawn to methods that align with their inherent learning preferences based on their learning style.
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Learning Styles And Research Methods Connection (Pdf)
1. 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
2. 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.
3. Something Funny This Way Comes
Group Activities – 10 minutes
Class Discussion – 3 minutes
Learning Styles – 12 minutes
So, What’s the Connection? – 5 minutes
5. 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
6. 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?
7. Types of Learning Styles Assessments:
Self-directed personal assessment
Informal and formal
Administered/regulated assessment
9. Learning Styles Self Assessment
Column A – Tactile Learners
(aka Kinesthetic Learners)
Column B – Auditory
Learners
Column C – Visual Learners
10. 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?
11. Ways of Knowing
Ways to Obtain Information
Sensory experience
Agreement with others
Expert opinion
Logic
The scientific method
12. Types of Research
Commonly Used Research Methodologies:
Experimental research
Correlational research
Casual-comparative research
Survey research
Ethnographic research
Historical research
Action research
Case Study
13. What methods are you drawn to?
How does that connect with your learning
style?
14. Fraenkel, J. R., & Wallen, N. E. (2009). How
to design and evaluate research in
education (7th ed.). Boston: McGraw-Hill
Higher Education.