ABSTRACT
The Gregorc Learning Style Delineator measures bidimensional patterns of learning preferences for making sense of the world through the perception and ordering of incoming information. Perceptual preference refers to acquisition in either an abstract or concrete manner, or in some combination. Abstract perception refers to the ability to process information through reason and intuition, often invisible to our physical senses. Concrete perception refers to the ability to process the physical aspects of information through the senses. Ordering preference refers to the way one arranges, prioritizes, and uses information in either a sequential or random order, or in some combination. A sequential style pertains to using a linear, step-by-step organizational scheme. Using a random order style involves organizing data in a networklike format relating data to each other in a variety of ways. Perception and ordering patterns combine into four basic mediation channels: the concrete sequential, the abstract sequential, the concrete random, and the concrete sequential. “These channels help people relate to the world by (style).” Gregorc believes that everyone can process information in any of these four manners. Beyond basic skill, however, individuals are predisposed to one or two of these channels. These predispositions, then, provide “psychological points of view, thinking patterns, mind sets, values and ways of expressing ourselves” (Gregorc, 1984).
