Assignment 1.1 Semester 1

To begin this new semester at university, we have been assigned to take part in a questionnaire that would determine where our better learning skills lay. There are four modes learning skills on the test, Activist, Reflector, Theorist and Pragmatist. These are the results I produced:

Activist: Strong

Reflector: Strong

Theorist: Low

Pragmatist: Very Low

When analyzing these results with the information provided I agree with the results of my learning styles. I feel that I learn best under all of the listed categories. With being involved in new experiences I always find them a bit daunting a first but once I get into them I find I learn a great deal from them and improve my understanding with each new experience. When working within a team, I feel that I can both listen to other team member’s opinions as well as express my own. I tend to dislike being thrown into the deep end but this is where I tend to work at my best as I just work endlessly until I get the job done.

I find it quite difficult to learn much when I am reading or writing, I have always found it difficult to concentrate if I am reading anything outside of fiction, I don’t know what it is but I struggle to understand or gain anything from reading and analyzing books and articles, I have to have someone there to help explain things to me.

For my results in the Reflector area I agree with the fact that I will observe other people’s view before expressing my own, this is because it helps me understand my own opinion and further improve upon it. When working on a project or an idea I collect as much research as I can to help with my final outcome, this is because I feel that I must research as much I can to understand what I am doing and to come up with the best outcome I can come up with.

The skills that I find weaker are my leadership skills and this is because I find it difficult to instruct others to do something, the responsibility of leading people makes me nervous.

With the other two areas that are my weakest are the Theorist and Pragmatist. For working on this team project I will try to take on board and pick up on some of the skills that other members may be stronger at so that I can work better within the team and as an individual.