To successfully compete in the hectic and complex business world, it's important to possess outstanding skills that will distinguish you in a positive way. Being a good learner and constantly developing your personality are necessary skills that individuals who want to succeed should strive for. One way to define the meaning of learning styles is, "employing diverse forms of behavior made of cognitive, effective and psychological factors that present the appropriate indicators of the learners' observation, collaboration and reaction to the learning environment" (Curry, 1981).
Completing Neil Fleming's VARK questionnaire I realized that my preferred learning style is Tactile /Kinaesthetic or also known as the Active Learner Style. I learn best not from explanation or direction; but from doing it. Felder and Silverman (1988, p. 71) described that in the Tactile/Kinaesthetic Learning Style, "Learning comes through touching and physical sensation. Thinking is anchored by movement, and touch, often three-dimensional, and usually all or nothing understanding of concepts. Demonstration or application works better than words to illustrate ideas ". As an active learner I tend to be controlled by impulse, be disorganized, absent-minded and hyperactive, and most of the time I will act first and think later. To be successful student and gain good grades I had to improve on my learning style thus, I adopted Kolb's Experiential Learning Model.
Kolb's model is based on the cross-comparison of two dimensions - active/reflective and abstract/concrete (Kolb, 1984). However, the Experiential Learning theory is criticized for the absence of prognostic rationality (Allinson, and Hayes, 1988). Honey and Mumford's Learning Style Questionnaire is considered to be a development of the Kolb's theory. To a certain degree it has enhanced legitimacy and predictive accurateness in compare with the Learning Style Inventory (Romanelli, Bird, and Ryan (2009).
