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