SLD: Steps to Success
Learning Skills Centre
Dr. Ross Cooper: Learning Styles
Interactive Diagnostic Screening
The programme is built on the principles that learning performance
can be performed by:
 a better self-awareness of strengths and weaknesses
 building on those strengths
Dr. Ross Cooper: Learning Styles
Interactive Diagnostic Screening
You are about to be marooned on a desert island.
Think of three things you would like to have to help you
survive:
Dr. Ross Cooper: Learning Styles
Interactive Diagnostic Screening
When you were thinking, did you
 see things
 name things
 see and name things?
Dr. Ross Cooper: Learning Styles
Interactive Diagnostic Screening
Did you
 see them before you named them?
 name them before you saw them?
 both?
Dr. Ross Cooper: Learning Styles
Interactive Diagnostic Screening
What I didn’t tell you is that tigers live on the island.
Can you name one thing you wish you’d got without seeing it?
 Yes
 A bit
 no
Dr. Ross Cooper: Learning Styles
Interactive Diagnostic Screening
Can you see one thing without naming it?
 yes
 a bit
 no
Dr. Ross Cooper: Learning Styles
Interactive Diagnostic Screening
You are about to find an odd one out puzzle
If you solve it, you can escape.
Dr. Ross Cooper: Learning Styles
Interactive Diagnostic Screening
Click on the odd one out:
A
B
C
D
E
F
C
H
I
J
K
L
*
*
0
*
0
*
Click on the odd one out:
0
*
0
*
0
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0
Dr. Ross Cooper: Learning Styles
Interactive Diagnostic Screening
When you first began to solve this puzzle did you:
 Look at the whole pattern and expect the odd one out to jump out at
you?
 Look at the sequence step by step?
Dr. Ross Cooper: Learning Styles
Interactive Diagnostic Screening
Which one worked for you?
 Look at the whole pattern and expect the odd one out to jump out?
 Look at the sequence step by step?
Dr. Ross Cooper: Learning Styles
Interactive Diagnostic Screening
You have won a holiday.
Your tickets are included.
You leave tomorrow.
Dr. Ross Cooper: Learning Styles
Interactive Diagnostic Screening
There are two groups for our winners
Choose the one you would prefer to join:
 an expert will give a talk on the subject
 an expert will lead a discussion and you are invited to join in
Dr. Ross Cooper: Learning Styles
Interactive Diagnostic Screening
Are you good at taking part in discussions?
 Yes
 No
Dr. Ross Cooper: Learning Styles
Interactive Diagnostic Screening
Do you find yourself fidgeting with your pen or other objects
when trying to listen?
 Yes
 Sometimes
 No
Dr. Ross Cooper: Learning Styles
Interactive Diagnostic Screening
Do you like rocking back on your chair?
 Yes
 Sometimes
 No
Dr. Ross Cooper: Learning Styles
Interactive Diagnostic Screening
Do you find you want to stand up and move off more quickly
than those around you?
 Yes
 Sometimes
 No
Dr. Ross Cooper: Learning Styles
Interactive Diagnostic Screening
Do you like to have more than one thing on the go and move
from one thing to another
 Yes
 Sometimes
 No
Dr. Ross Cooper: Learning Styles
Interactive Diagnostic Screening
Click on today’s date
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23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
When using the telephone do you get the numbers mixed up when
you dial?
 Yes
 No
Dr. Ross Cooper: Learning Styles
Interactive Diagnostic Screening
Is your spelling poor?
 Yes
 No
Do you mix up dates and times and miss appointments?
 Yes
 No
Dr. Ross Cooper: Learning Styles
Interactive Diagnostic Screening
Do you find forms difficult and confusing?

Yes / No
Do you find it difficult to take messages and pass them on
correctly?

Yes / No
Do you mix up bus numbers like 159 and 195?
 Yes / No
Dr. Ross Cooper: Learning Styles
Interactive Diagnostic Screening
Thank you and we will now compile the results of your assessment
Visual or verbal?
Visual
Verbal
speed
imaginative
creative
lateral
inductive
symbolic
overview
patterns
multi-dimensional
inter-relationships
ordered
analytical
critical
logical
deductive
abstract
detail
elements
2-dimensional
cause and effect
Holistic strategies
Holistic strategies include:

Trying to “see: what things mean

Thinking what it means before you start

Deciding why you are learning something (purpose)

Reading the summary first

Making connections to things you already know

Skimming and scanning to identify key points or priorities

Making mind maps

Creating meaningful models

Making up analogies /metaphors

Thinking how you might use the learning
Sequential strategies
Sequential strategies include:

Learning first principles

Following through problems and their solutions

Testing yourself on questions and answers

Focusing in on specific parts of the learning

Ensuring that you understand all the vocabulary

Identifying the evidence and reaching a conclusion

Doing background reading

Planning what you are going to do in what order

Learning the rules
Does moving help your
concentration?
 drink plenty of water

eat when you feel the need (but not sugar!!)
 change the light to suit you (particularly when reading)

listen to slow baroque music if you find background noise helps you
concentrate

work at the time of day that suits you as far as possible

select study skills that suit your leaning style
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