Instructional Style Indicator 360-Degree

Are you frustrating your students and participants? Learn how to immediately implement instructional flexibility to increase your learning impact.

The Instructional Style Indicator (ISI) is a professional development and pre-employment test designed to evaluate and improve the presentation delivery of educators, corporate trainers, public speakers, and coaches. The assessment identifies an educator’s preferred teaching pattern out of 21 unique style profiles. Available as a quick online questionnaire or a self-scored paper booklet, it measures an instructor’s strengths, personal limitations, and self-perceptions to help them adjust their methods to fit how their audience learns best.

The Instructional Style Indicator is a compelling communication and learning tool that can instantly improve the instructional performance and results of any educator, teacher, speaker, trainer, facilitator, coach, or instructor. This 16-page self-administered and self-scored assessment helps you and your instructors identify your preferred teaching style pattern.

The Instructional Style Indicator 360-Degree (ISI 360º) is an online or paper-based professional development and evaluation tool designed to measure and improve the presentation delivery of teachers, corporate trainers, coaches, and public speakers. While the standard version relies entirely on self-assessment, this 360-degree multi-rater framework collects anonymous perceptions and opinions from the learners and clients surrounding the instructor. By comparing an educator’s self-image against real audience feedback across 21 distinct instructional style profiles, it helps presenters build presentation flexibility to maximize knowledge transfer and stop boring their audiences. The test requires less than 30 minutes to complete.

360-Degree Version

The ISI 360º is a simple yet powerful process to capture how individuals experience Others Instructional Styles. There are no right or wrong answers and what this method does is document the perceptions and opinions of the learners around you.

This assessment does not create the results, but rather confirms what is already true for each individual -providing a framework and system to understand self and others.

What It’s Best Used For

• Aligning intent with audience perception: Verifying whether an instructor’s self-perceived teaching strengths match the actual day-to-day experience of their students and clients.
• Gaining deep behavioral self-awareness: Documenting exactly how specific communication habits and delivery methods are directly affecting classroom results.
• Pinpointing delivery blind spots: Identifying the specific ways a preferred instructional style may be working against learner retention or frustrating certain learning styles.
• Building custom professional growth plans: Creating clear strategies to step outside of a single comfort zone and implement dynamic “style-shifting” methods tailored to diverse audiences.
• Facilitating post-evaluation coaching: Providing structured, objective feedback data to guide deep, constructive mentoring conversations between educators and their supervisors.
• Vetting external educational applicants: Screening high-tier training or academic candidates to verify their versatile instructional competencies before final placement.

Use the ISI to

• Hire and Evaluate Instructors
• Confirm Instructional Style
• Determine Instructional Limitations
• Understand How to Teach Different Learning Styles

Use it for

• Teachers/Educators
• Speakers and Trainers
• Human Resources Managers
• Any Instructors
• Supervisors/Leaders

Instructors are respected or disrespected, based upon their ability to share information in a way that meets participants’ needs—not just the needs of the instructor.

See The Stand Alone Version Is Available Here