Learning Styles

I was never comfortable in school, though I was a good student and loved learning.

Here are the characteristics of four primary thinking styles, charted by Kathleen A. Butler, Ph.D.¹ The determinants are 1) concrete (real) or abstract (virtual) and 2) random (network) or sequential (linear) These traits combine for four different styles:
Concrete Random, Concrete Sequential, Abstract Random, Abstract Sequential.Most people are strong in one style, but share aspects of other styles.

Me, mostly

MUSE is where I share my real and imaginative products …

Someone close to me. We overlap in concrete space

Other people I love. We overlap in random space

Most teachers (not most students). Most scientists

Where are you?

1. Butler, Kathleen A., LEARNING AND TEACHING STYLE: IN THEORY AND PRACTICE. Columbia, CT: The Learner’s Dimension. *Chart interpreted from the original research of Anthony F. Gregorc, Ph.D