Learning Styles Inventory

 

Before beginning, all students will be shown how to determine their learning style.  Special instructions will be given on how to use their style effectively in their studies.  A sample of the learning style inventory follows.

 

Directions:  This inventory contains statements about how people like to learn.  Read each statement carefully.  These statements have no right or wrong answers; your response to each statement should reflect the way you feel.  Your immediate or first answer is usually the best response.  Make only one choice for each statement.  Please respond to all statements.

 

Circle the number, which agrees with how you feel about each statement.

 

Most like me  Least like me

1.         4          3          2          1          The things I remember best are the things I read.

 

2.         4          3          2          1          I really like to draw or trace things.

 

3.         4          3          2          1          If I have to learn something new, I like to learn about it                                                                     by having it told to me.

 

4.         4          3          2          1          I really like to watch television.

 

5.         4          3          2          1          To remember things, I need to write or copy them.

 

6.         4          3          2          1          I like to learn most by building, making, or other ways of                                                                                                                                   

doing them.

 

7.         4          3          2          1          The things I remember best are the things I hear.

 

8.         4          3          2          1          I understand a math problem that is written better than

one I hear.

 

9.         4          3          2          1          I really like to do experiments.

 

10.        4          3          2          1          I enjoy learning by listening to others.

 

11.        4          3          2          1          I like to make things as I learn.

 

12.        4          3          2          1          I like to be able to move and experience the motion and

feel of what I study.

 

13.        4          3          2          1          If I have to learn something new, I like to learn about it

by seeing a filmstrip or film.

 

14.        4          3          2          1          I like to learn through real experience.

 

15.        4          3          2          1          I really like to listen to people talk.

 

16.        4          3          2          1          A graph or chart of numbers is easier for me to

understand than hearing the explanation of the graph or

chart.

 

17.        4          3          2          1          The things I remember best are the things I do.    

 

 

18.        4          3          2          1          If I have to learn something new, I like to learn about it

by listening to lectures, speakers, or tapers.

 

19.        4          3          2          1          When I do math problems in my head, I say the numbers

 to myself.

 

20.        4          3          2          1          I enjoy learning by reading assignments and class notes.

 

21.        4          3          2          1          If I have to learn something new, I like to learn about it

by reading books and periodicals.

 

22.        4          3          2          1          I remember what I have been reading better than what I

have heard.

 

23.        4          3          2          1          I understand spoken directions better than written ones.

 

24.        4          3          2          1          If someone tells me 3 numbers to add, I can usually get

the right answer without writing them down.

 

Further instructions will be given in class

 

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