The main focus of chapter two is self-assessment. Students must gauge their strengths and weaknesses. Some tools for self- assessment include knowing your own personality, multiple intelligence levels, peak and valley times, and learning styles.
The results of these tests result in self- discovery. Learning new strengths or weaknesses helps students use the information for their advantage and be aware of the impact they can have on learning. Even discovering the most and least productive times of the day can help student to become the “best learner possible and thus the most successful student”.
The idea of learning styles has been around for many years and applies to online learning as well. Visual, auditory, and tactile-kinesthetic learning have various approaches and results in the online environment, but are all adaptable to be successful in their own way. Stringer and grouper learning is a new concept, but one that may fit most learners. Seeing the big picture first, groupers, versus seeing the details first, stringers, exemplify the various learning styles.
Chapter two concludes with more encouragement for the student to find ways that will enable success. More websites are listed that the student help the student learn personality types, learning styles, and other self-assessment styles. http://www.pearsonhighered.com/assets/hip/us/hip_us_pearsonhighered/samplechapter/0135029333.pdf
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