Learning Styles Inventories (also known as surveys, questionnaires or self assessments) are useful tools for helping adult learners to think about and understand how they learn. These surveys ask students to report on the methods (e.g. note taking with drawings, studying in groups), modalities (reading a book, listening to a lecture), and environments (quiet spaces, with others) students use and find most effective as they learn.

Here are 5 Learning Style Inventories you could recommend to adult learners.

1. VARK Questionaire

2. Index of Learning Styles Questionaire

3. Learning Style Assessment

4. Learning Style Profile Generator

5. Learning Styles Inventory

It is important to emphasize to students that the results of Learning Styles Inventories don’t describe the only way a student can learn (e.g. if they are a visual learner, it does not mean they cannot learn through any other modality), so they should not be used to label a student as one type of learner or another. Learning Styles Inventories can be useful to help students understand, take control of and improve upon their own learning.

Are you using a Learning Styles Inventory with your students? Which one? When do you assign it to students? What support or interpretation do you offer to students?

Article contributed by EPS411.com team member Kristin Bonnie, PhD.

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Tags: Learning Style, Questionaire, Student

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