Learning Style Indicator
The Learning Style Indicator (LSI) is a self-administered evaluation tool designed to help individuals understand their natural learning preferences, cognitive processing patterns, and most effective learning strategies. Taking less than 30 minutes to complete online or via a 12-page paper booklet, this untimed assessment categorizes individuals into one of 21 unique learning style patterns. Rather than testing raw intelligence or academic knowledge, the LSI examines personal learning behaviors to show users how to intentionally align their physical and instructional environments with their natural mental strengths.
About this Test
The Learning Style Indicator (LSI) is a self-administered evaluation tool designed to help individuals understand their natural learning preferences, cognitive processing patterns, and most effective learning strategies. Taking less than 30 minutes to complete online or via a 12-page paper booklet, this untimed assessment categorizes individuals into one of 21 unique learning style patterns. Rather than testing raw intelligence or academic knowledge, the LSI examines personal learning behaviors to show users how to intentionally align their physical and instructional environments with their natural mental strengths.
Discover how you and others learn best by completing the Learning Style Indicator. This 12-page assessment helps you and your clients understand your natural learning preferences, your learning style pattern(s), and your most effective learning strategies.
For years, some students were wrongly accused of being poor learners when, in fact, they were being taught by instructors who didn’t teach the way those students were best able to learn. Every single learner—from elementary/middle school students, to adults retraining for a new profession—should understand his or her preferred learning style. Then, as learners they can intentionally create a learning environment that plays to their strengths and preferences.
What It’s Best Used For
- Maximizing personal learning potential: Helping students (ages 14+), seminar participants, and retraining adults discover “how they learn” to deliberately select matching study methods.
- Optimizing instructional and teaching delivery: Assisting teachers, corporate trainers, and coaches in understanding the specific sensory and cognitive needs of the 21 different style patterns to design flexible curricula.
- Identifying personal strengths and limitations: Using the comprehensive 24-page In-Depth Interpretations guide to map an individual’s self-perception, behavioral blind spots, and processing habits.
- Facilitating intentional “style-shifting”: Providing targeted tips to help a learner consciously adapt their habits when forced to study in restrictive or non-ideal training environments.
- Informing workplace training and placement decisions: Supplying hiring managers and corporate teams with data to structure corporate professional development tracks or evaluate candidate learning preference.
Use the LSI to:
- Learn How You Learn
- Understand the Four Different Learning Styles
- Confirm Your Specific Learning Style Pattern(s)
- Determine the Best Learning Environments and Instructors for You
Use it for:
- Any Student, Age 14 and up
- Employees
- Instructors
- Seminar Participants
- Clients
- Family Members
Not only should every learner complete this assessment, every instructor, educator, teacher, parent, speaker, facilitator, coach, leader, and supervisor should understand the needs and wants of each of the 21 learning style patterns.
Learning is no longer just about individuals graduating from high school or post-secondary institutions, then moving on to a career. Change has never been more continuous, requiring each of us, if we want to add value to the marketplace, to keep expanding our knowledge, skills, and competencies. The average person in the 21st century will have 5 to 10 careers, including jobs that have not even been invented yet.
This means that each of us—no matter what our age or background—must commit to life-long learning.
This learning assessment can assist you to do the following:
- Identify how you and others learn best!
- Understand your natural learning preferences.
- Discover your learning style pattern(s).
- Determine your most effective learning strategies.
- Intentionally create a learning environment that plays to your strengths and preferences.
- Increase your productivity and success by sharing your learning style with your instructor.
- Develop a plan to increase your style-flexibility and effectiveness in learning environments.
See the Instructional Style Indicator as well.
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