Learning Styles

Learning Styles Inventories

Each of us has our own preferred learning style. There are different types and aspects of learning styles. The benefit of learning your preferred learning style is to help you use and focus on the type(s) of learning that will best aid in your learning. The following Web sites will help you identify the various aspects of your preferred learning style:

Abiator's Online Learning Styles Inventory *

http://www.berghuis.co.nz/abiator/lsi/lsiframe.html

Four Learning Styles Types (Based on Anthony Gregorc's Mind Styles)

http://employees.csbsju.edu/esass/learningstyle.htm

How to Identify Your Best Learning Styles

http://www.marin.cc.ca.us/~don/Study/13styles.html

Index of Learning Styles Questionnaire

http://www.engr.ncsu.edu/learningstyles/ilsweb.html

Personal Thinking Styles (Based on Anthony Gregorc's Mind Styles)

http://www.thelearningweb.net/personalthink.html

The VARK Questionnaire for Younger People *

http://www.vark-learn.com/english/page.asp?p=younger

Recommended Books

The Way They Learn: How to Discover and Teach to Your Child's Strengths, by Cynthia Tobias

Every Child Can Succeed: Making the Most of Your Child's Learning Style, by Cynthia Tobias

I Hate School! How to Help Your Child Love Learning, by Cynthia Tobias

Recommended Web Site

Applied Learning Styles - Cynthia Tobias's Web site

(Includes Free Student Profile and excerpts from some of her books)

http://www.applest.com/default.htm

Recommended Articles

Article on the Learning Styles Models as outlined in Cynthia Tobias's book The Way They Learn

http://www.trinitylutheranpaso.org/School/pages/message.htm

Another Review of Cynthia Tobias's book The Way They Learn (Includes a chart and delineated list of Learning Style Characteristics)

http://www.omahahen.org/resources/reviews/rev13.htm

Four Types of Thinking Style

http.//www.thelearningweb.net/chapter10/page357.html

How the Learner's Personality Affects the Way They Learn

http://language.com.hk/articles/styles4.html

Know Your Child's Learning Needs

http://www.focusonyourchild.com/learning/art1/A0000144.html

Learning Styles - Learn Effectively by Understanding Your Learning Preferences

http://www.mindtools.com/mnemlsty.html

Let's Learn About Learning Styles, by Peg Flint*

http://www.teach-at-home.com/PFlint.asp

Mind Styles, by Anthony Gregorc

http://facultyweb.cortland.edu/andersmd/learning/Gregorc.htm

Tables of Learning Preferences for Each Mind Style

http://www.floatingneutrinos.com/Message/arcs/links_on_abstractrandom.htm

What are Learning Styles?

http://flakylmd.com/homeschool/learningstyle.html#