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The following quiz is used to identify your child’s personality style as a learner, i.e. how they handle the feelings that are evoked during the learning process, what kind of motivation the learner brings to the learning task, as well as personal values, beliefs and attitudes related to learning; whether they prefer to work alone or in groups, and the kind of relationship the learner prefers to have with the teacher and other learners. These are all key factors in the learning process, and are essential to understand in creating the best music learning experience that Bravura can provide. Please take the time to fill out the following informal personality quiz, providing the answer that describes your child most of the time.
1. Is your child most likely to:
a. act first, then think about the actions taken
b. think first, then act
2. You ask your child how his or her day was at school. Is your child’s response more focused on:
a. the details of the day (schedule, tasks accomplished, etc.)
b. social interactions with others, emotional interactions, how others feel about situations your child is involved with
3. Does your child gain more energy from:
a. spending time alone to rest and recharge self
b. being around a lot of people/ engaging in social interaction
4. Does your child prefer:
a. learning in groups/ doing group activities
b. learning on a one-to-one basis
5. Which comes more naturally to your child?
a. Picking up on others’ needs and emotions
b. Noticing tasks that need to be accomplished
6. When you ask your child how his/ her day at school was:
a. He/she recalls detail-oriented facts from the day
b. He/she recalls experiences, patterns, and personal connections
7. Is your child more likely to:
a. focus attention on what is happening in the moment
b. think about the future/what is going to happen later
8. Which problem-solving method comes most naturally to your child?
a. using imagination to create/invent potential solutions
b. using common sense, creating practical solutions
9. Your child has an important test coming up. Is your child more likely to:
a. study and prepare well in advance
b. Wait until the night before the test to study
10. When your child is learning something new, does your child prefer:
a. ambiguous, fuzzy data where the child can ponder and guess its meaning
b. clear, concrete information
11. Your child has a group project to complete at school. Is your child more likely to be interested in:
a. figuring out the details of how to complete the project, what the rules and expectations are, and how they will be carried out
b. the thoughts and feelings of the other members of the group regarding carrying out the project
12. You are going on a family vacation. Is your child more likely to:
a. want to plan out and understand all of the details in advance
b. go “with the flow” and not be concerned with details or preparations
13. Is your child motivated more by:
a. his or her own internal world of imagination and ideas
b. the outside world of people and things
14. Your child has a conflict with one of his or her friends. Does your child:
a. brush it off and keep going about the day
b. become very upset by the conflict until it is settled
15. When your child is doing homework, does he/ she prefer:
a. multi-tasking, moving back and forth between projects and play time
b. focusing on completing one task at a time