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Overview of the 4MAT Learning System

The 4MAT system is a learning model developed by McCarthy based on Kolb's learning styles and brain research. It categorizes learners into 4 types - imaginative, analytical, common sense, and dynamic - based on their preferred learning approaches. The 4MAT system proposes guiding instruction through 4 sequential phases to engage both right and left brain functions for all learner types. Educators present content to stimulate different learning styles at each phase to fully develop students' abilities.

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Overview of the 4MAT Learning System

The 4MAT system is a learning model developed by McCarthy based on Kolb's learning styles and brain research. It categorizes learners into 4 types - imaginative, analytical, common sense, and dynamic - based on their preferred learning approaches. The 4MAT system proposes guiding instruction through 4 sequential phases to engage both right and left brain functions for all learner types. Educators present content to stimulate different learning styles at each phase to fully develop students' abilities.

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4MAT SYSTEM

What is 4MAT System?


 it is developed by McCarthy (1981) based on
previous research on learning styles and brain
functioning.
She used Kolb’s model combined with Sperry’s
right-brain/left-brain reasearch findings to create
the 4MAT system.
4 Types of Learners:
TYPE 1 – Imaginative: Learners who demand to
know why. These learners like to listen, speak,
interact, and brainstorm.
TYPE 2 – Analytical: Learners who want to know
what to learn. These learners are most comfortable
observing, analyzing, classifying, and theorizing.
4 Types of Learners:
TYPE 3 – Common Sense: Learners who want to
know how to apply the new learning. These
learners are happiest when experimenting,
manipulating, improving, and tinkering.
TYPE 4 – Dynamic: Learners enjoy modifying,
adapting, taking risks, and creating.
4MAT System
 McCarthy defines the learning process as a natural
sequence from Type 1 to Type 4. Educators can address
all four learning styles by teaching sequentially, thereby
attending to all types of learners.
 Learners are then able to work with their own strongest
learning style, while at the same time developing the
ability through exposure to work in the other quadrants.
How to use 4MAT System?
 Learners begin in the first quadrant of the 4MAT system,
known as Type 1, and engage the right brain by sensing and
feeling their way through an experience. Eventually, they
move to the left brain to analyze what they have experienced.
 The next quadrant is Type 2, in which learning also begins
with the right brain to make observations and integrate data
with present knowledge. Learners then engage the left brain to
think about new theories and concepts relative to these
observations.
How to use 4MAT System?
 Type 3 learners begin with the left brain by working
with defined concepts and then shift to the right
brain to experiment with what is to be learned.
 Finally, Type 4 learners begin with the left brain by
analyzing the practicality of what has been learned.
They then move to the right brain to show mastery
through application and sharing of findings with
others.
Steps:
 According to this model, it is important for the
educator to begin by stimulating Type 1 learning,
which includes personal meaning for the learner to
make the learning experience relevant and to answer
the why questions.
 It is essential to introduce new knowledge based on
accurate information to answer the what question.
Steps:
 The third step in sequential learning is to deal with
reality in a practical manner through application of
knowledge to enable learners to answer the how
question.
 Finally, in fourth step, the learning experience must
allow the learner to be innovative and inspiring and
to create new dynamic possibilities so that the if
question is answered.
Instrument to Measure the 4MAT
System
 The 4MAT instructional design and the learning-type
measurement instrument is a 26-point questionnaire.
There seems to be no direct criticism of the 4MAT
model, and it is accepted by many educators as a useful
approach for presenting new information.

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