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How you take in information

  In the Dunns' research, they discovered that:
     Only 30 percent of students remember even 75 percent of what they hear during a normal class period.
     Forty percent retain three-quarters of what they read or see. These visual learners are of two types: some process information in word-form, while others retain what they see in diagram or picture-form.
     Fifteen percent learn best tactually. They need to handle materials, to write, draw and be involved with concrete experiences.
     Another 15 percent are kinesthetic. They learn best by physically doing - by participating in real experiences that generally have direct application to their lives.
  According to the Dunns, we each usually have one dominant strength and also a secondary one. And, in a classroom or seminar, if our main perceptual strength is not matched with the teaching method, we may have difficulty learning, unless we can compensate with our secondary perceptual strengths.
  This has major implications for solving the high-school dropout problem. In our experience, kinesthetic and tactile learners are the main candidates for failure in traditional school classrooms. They need to move, to feel, to touch, to do - and if the teaching method does not allow them to do this they feel left out, uninvolved, bored.
  Neuro linguistic programming specialist Michael Grinder says that of

 

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