Learning Style Inventory

Example - how to rank the sentence endings below, from 4, 3, 2 to 1:

I prefer to deal I prefer to watch I prefer to think I prefer to be

When I learn: 4 1 2 3
with my feelings and listen about ideas doing things

Read the instructions and see from the example how to rank the sentence endings
Learning Style Inventory
below, from 4, 3, 2, 1

Complete the following table

I prefer to deal I prefer to watch I prefer to think I prefer to be

1.! When I learn:
with my feelings and listen about ideas doing things

I trust my
2.! I learn best I listen and watch I rely on logical I work hard to
hunches and
when: carefully thinking get things done
feelings

I have strong I am
3.! When I am I am quiet and I tend to reason
feelings and responsible
learning: reserved things out
reactions about things

4.! I learn by: Feeling Watching Thinking Doing

I prefer to analyse
I am open to new I look at all sides things, break I prefer to try
5.! When I learn:
experiences of issues them into their things out
parts

6.! When I am I am an intuitive I am an observing I am a logical I am an active

learning: person person person person

7.! I learn best Personal A chance to try

Observation Rational theories
from: relationships things out

I prefer to see
I feel personally I take my time I prefer ideas and
8.! When I learn: results from my
involved in things before acting theories
work

!
9.! I learn best I rely on my I rely on my I can try things
I rely on my ideas
when: feelings observations out for myself

I am a
10.!When I am I am an accepting I am a reserved I am a rational
responsible
learning: person person person
person

I evaluate my I prefer to be
11.! When I learn: I get involved I prefer to observe
feelings active

12.!I learn best I am receptive and

I am careful I analyse ideas I am practical
when: open minded

Calculate your score by:

How to calculate ๏ Adding up all the numbers which you allocated to feeling, and write the total score in
your score the block below

๏ Do the same for thinking, watching and doing.

Total for Figure Your Total

!
Feeling

!
Watching

!
Thinking

!
Doing
Plotting your Preferred Learning Style Plan
Total for Figure Your Total Coding

Feeling

Watching

Thinking

Doing

Take your scores for the four learning modes, AC, CE, AE and RO, and subtract as follows to get to your
two combination scores:

AC CE AC - CE AE RO AE - RO
A positive score on the AC – CE scale indicates that your score is more abstract. A negative score on the
AC – CE scale indicates that your score is more concrete. Likewise, a positive or negative score on the AE
– RO scale indicates that your scores are either more active or more reflective.

By marking your two combination scores, AC – CE and AE – RO, on the two lines of the following grid
and plotting their point of interception, or data point, you can find which of the four learning styles you
will fall into. These four quadrants, labelled Activist, Reflector, Pragmatist and Theorist, represent the
four dominant learning styles.