Learning Styles

Introduction

Understanding both students’ learning preferences and one’s own teaching style can greatly enhance any course. The links in this section provide information on learning styles and multiple intelligences.

• Overview of Learning Styles
• Links to Web Articles and a Learning Styles Inventory
• Articles related to Learning Styles compiled by Richard Felder
• Student Learning Styles and Their Implications for Teaching by Susan M. Montgomery & Linda N. Groat, 1998.
• Learning Style Can Become Learning Strategies (W.J. McKeachie, University of Michigan)
• Smith, M. K. (2001) 'David A. Kolb on experiential learning', The Encyclopedia of Informal Education (infed). Retrieved from http://www.infed.org/biblio/b-explrn.htm#learning%20style
• New Horizons for Learning: Multiple Intelligences--articles, recommended reading, related links
• New Horizons for Learning: Learning Styles--articles, recommended reading, related links

• David Kolb's Learning Styles Model and Experiential Learning Theory (ELT) was published in 1984.

 

Inventories

• VARK – A Guide to Learning Styles

• Abiator's Learning Styles Inventories, Analytical/Global Thinker Test, Multiple Intelligences Test

• Online Learning Styles Questionnaire

• Diablo Valley College Learning Style Overview and Survey

• The Paragon Learning Style Inventory (PLSI) is a self-administered survey that provides a very reliable indication of learning style and cognitive preference. It uses the four Jungian dimensions (i.e, introversion/ extroversion, intuition/sensation, thinking/feeling, and judging/perceiving) that are also used by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Murphy Meisgeir Type Indicator, and the Keirsey-Bates Temperament Sorter. But this is the only instrument that can be self-scored and works with ages 9-adult.

• Learning Styles Inventory Links compiled by Jim Balls, Vanderbilt School of Medicine