Learning Styles Inventory

1 Your Learning style is the unique way inwhich you go about gathering information,sorting it out, and making decisionsLearning Styles InventoryLEARNING Styles INVENTORYP ersonal Power Products Learning Styles InventoryBy Janet Hagberg and Terry DonovanPersonal Power Products1735 Evergreen Lane NPlymouth, MN 55441-4102763-300-0163 Copyright 2007 by Hagberg & Donovan. All rights would be most displeased if anyone should reproduce any part of this book without our express writtenpermission. While we are not vengeful, we are Learning styleis the unique way in which you go about gathering information, sorting itout, and making decisions.

2 Knowing and understanding how to use your Learning style isone of the most insightful and useful tools for adults. You are more likely to find meaningand satisfaction in your life and work if you are aware of your best and most enjoyable styleof analogy illustrating Learning Styles is a futuristic computer, one into which you can putsounds, shapes, tastes, colors, textures, smells, feelings, movements, and letters. Once theinformation is inside, the computer, our mind, uses our Learning abilities to mix every-thing together, make sense of it, transpose it, and send it back in the form of ideas, speech,words, symbols, facial expressions, and body movements that fit together to form a whole.

3 Copyright 2006 by Hagberg & Donovan. All rights Styles InventoryLEARNINGSTYLESThe Learning computer The Learning computer is reprinted from The Inventurersby J. Hagberg and R. Leider, copyright 1986, by permission ofPerseus Publishing Company, Boston, MA. Copyright 2007 by Hagberg & Donovan. All rights of us choose and digest information primarily because it feelsgood. We just know it when we feel it. We use our emotions to guide us in decidingwhat to do and how to proceed. We enjoy using body movement and speech tocommunicate. And we like to get involved in real hands-on of us use our imagination to observe and digest newmaterials or ideas, seeing them in new ways or drawing mind pictures.

4 We wouldrather think or write about ideas using images and analogies than verbalize spontaneously. We like to watch other people and react to their others of us primarily scrutinize or analyze information,pulling it apart and putting it back together in new ways. We design models andsymbols, taking as much information into account as possible. What we do is systematic and of us see information primarily as part of action, to help solve aproblem. We use words and actions to promote a project or help forge a like to learn while it s happening and use Learning practically. We do not enjoylearning merely for its own we combine ANY TWO of these abilities we get a Learning style.

5 We ll showyou more about that after you take the Learning Style can begin by completing the sentences that precede each , I learn best Aif you strongly identify with the word on the left. Mark Bif you agree more with the word on the left, but only moderately. Mark Cif you identify moderately with the word on the Dif you strongly identify with the work on the right. As you can see a different question precedes each Learning situations, I 1if you strongly identify with the word on the left. Mark 2if you agree more with the word on the left, but only moderately. Mark 3if you identify moderately with the word on the 4if you strongly identify with the work on the right.

6 Learning Styles InventoryAs you complete thisinventory, pick a setting-work, home or school. Then think of the ways you most frequently go about Learning . If you are trying something new,how do you learn best?If you are preparing to teach other people about a topic, how do you most easily prepare yourself? INSTRUCTIONSFOUR MAJORABILITIESTHELEARNINGSTYLEINVENTORYG enerally, I learn best small stepsnnnnnnnnObserving big pictureBeing QuicknnnnnnnnBeing deliberateExperimentingnnnnnnnnDigesting Carrying out ideasnnnnnnnnThinking up ideasChangingnnnnnnnnRemaining constantBeing animatednnnnnnnnBeing ReservedDoingnnnnnnnnWatchingBeing goal orientednnnnnnnnBeing process orientedBeing practicalnnnnnnnnSeeing idealsChanging as I gonnnnnnnnMapping out in advanceFinding solutionsnnnnnnnnIdentifying problemsFormulating answersnnnnnnnnFormulating questionsA_____B_____C_____D_____In Learning situations.

7 I involvednnnnnnnnImpersonally objectiveEmotional nnnnnnnnIntellectualSupportivennnnnnnnCr iticalEager to discuss with othersnnnnnnnnProne to analyze by myselfInterested in new nnnnnnnnInterested in new ideas, experiencesmodelsA believer in opinionnnnnnnnnA believer in theoryAcceptingnnnnnnnnQuestioningFeelin gnnnnnnnnThinkingA quick risk takernnnnnnnnA slow risk takerProne to trial and errornnnnnnnnProne to planning and organizingPeople orientednnnnnnnnTask-orientedReady to jump innnnnnnnnWanting facts firstDependentnnnnnnnnIndependent1_____2 _____3_____4_____Total the number of As, Bs, Cs, and Ds youchecked and writethem on the lines atthe bottom of this the number of 1s, 2s, 3s, and 4 s.

8 Write them at the bottom of this section. Remember, if youchecked four 2 s, you have a total of 4, not 8!ttObserving6 Learning Styles totaling your As, Bs, 2s, 3s, your highest letter score andyour highest number score. If you have ties between two scores,circle two these scores to the profile below,in the following way:Draw addootttteedd lliinnee ddoowwnn tthhrroouugghh tthhee bbooxxeess,,starting from your highest letter score ortied scores, A, B, C, or a ddootttteedd lliinnee ddoowwnn tthhrroouugghh tthhee bbooxxeess,,starting from your highest number scoreor tied scores, 1, 2, 3, or withaa ssttaarr ** tthhee ppllaaccee wwhheerree tthheeyy is your best and most preferredlearning style.

9 ENTHUSIASTIC, IMAGINA-TIVE, LOGICAL OR YOURLEARNING STYLEINVENTORY264 11653A B FeelingC DThinkingObservingDoing1234 EnthusiasticLearning StyleImaginative LearningStylePracticalLearning StyleLogical Learning Style*Sample ProfileABCDT hinkingDoing1234 Example:A_____B_____C_____D_____1_____2_ ____3_____4_____Your Scores:A_____B_____C_____D_____1_____2__ ___3_____4_____ Copyright 2007 by Hagberg & Donovan. All rights Learning StylePractical Learning StyleLogical Learning StyleEnthusiastic Learning StyleFeeling Copyright 2007 by Hagberg & Donovan. All rights Styles InventoryYou ve been asked to react to the four different dimensions of Learning : feeling, observing,thinking, and doing.

10 By combining these four dimensions in various ways we come up withfour different Learning Styles . These are ENTHUSIASTIC, IMAGINATIVE, LOGICAL, you can see from the Learning Style Grid, the Enthusiastic learners combine the feelingand doing dimensions of Learning , while the Imaginatives combine the feeling and observingdimensions. The Logicals are opposite of Enthusiastics, combining the observing and think-ing dimensions and the Practicals are the opposites of Imaginatives, combining the thinkingand doing aspects of what? What difference does all this make? That is a great question.