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Learning styles are different ways that a person can learn. It's commonly believed that most people favor some particular method of interacting with, taking in, and processing stimuli or information. Psychologists have proposed several complementary taxonomies of learning styles. But other psychologists and neuroscientists have questioned the scientific basis for some learning style theories. A major report published in 2004 cast doubt on most of the main tests used to identify an individual's learning style.
Learning Styles Models
The following instruments represent 12 major approaches to learning styles.
- Allinson and Hayes’ Cognitive Styles Index (CSI)
- Apter’s Motivational Style Profile (MSP)
- Dunn and Dunn model and instruments of learning styles
- Entwistle’s Approaches and Study Skills Inventory for Students (ASSIST)
- Gregorc’s Mind Styles Model and Style Delineator (GSD)
- Herrmann’s Brain Dominance Instrument (HBDI)
- Honey and Mumford’s Learning Styles Questionnaire (LSQ)
- Jackson’s Learning Styles Profiler (LSP)
- David A. Kolb’s Learning Style Inventory (LSI)
- Riding’s Cognitive Styles Analysis (CSA)
- Sternberg’s Thinking Styles Inventory (TSI)
- Vermunt’s Inventory of Learning Styles (ILS).
Visual, Aural, Kinesthetic (VAK and VARK)
Although the theorists may disagree on the vocabulary to describe the four basic types of learning style, the following are representative categories:- visual (learn by seeing)
- verbal/auditory (learn by hearing)
- reading/writing (learn by processing text) (This category is not always listed.)
- kinesthetic or practical (learn by doing).
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Abiator's Online Learning Styles Inventory - Free exams, and some explanatory materials to help act on the results.
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Attending to Learning Styles in Mathematics and Science Classrooms - Provides full-text access to the ERIC Digest of this name dealing with how learning styles impacts the way students learn math and science material.
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¡LEER ES PODER! Learning Styles Spanish - A brief consideration of the different learning styles that bear on the learning of Spanish.
Cognitive Pattern of the Yakima Indian Students - Study of four groups of Indian children suggests that they may learn better spatially and sequentially than by traditional verbal methods.
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Hispanic-American Students and Learning Style - Provides full-text access to the ERIC Digest of this name which examines how the learning styles of Hispanic students differ from other students.
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Insight Learning Foundation - Provides tools that help students learn the skills they need to succeed in life.
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learning style, learn the skills they need to succeed in
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Leading Learning - Dedicated to leading the change from a teacher-centered to a learner-centered culture in our schools.
Learning Styles Online - Includes inventory to identify personal learning styles.
Meta Description: [ Home page for learning-styles-online.com - a website that provides free information on learning styles, as well as a test to help you discover yours. ]
Lessons: Learning Styles and Strategies of Engineering Students - Lessons is a grant at North Carolina State University, funded by National Science Foundation, that seeks to understand, identify and promote factors that determine success for first year engineering students.
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Oklahoma Institute of Learning Styles - Most of the research and applications are based on the pioneering work of Dr. Rita Dunn and Dr. Kenneth Dunn.
Price Systems, Inc. - All about peoples learning styles.
Seven Learning Styles - Linguistic, logical, spatial, musical, bodily, interpersonal, and intrapersonal learning styles introduced and discussed.
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The International Learning Styles Network - Fosters life-long academic, intellectual and personal success through the promotion and dissemination of research, information, publications and other resources focusing on learning, teaching and productivity styles. Emphasizes the Dunn and Dunn model.
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