Learning Styles

Learning Styles Resources
(Note: some items listed below may not be available for purchase with school funding. Ask your ES for help.)

Learning Styles Inventories
Below are two "easy to print and administer" inventory options for determining a student's learning style:
1. "Kind of Learner" Inventory
2. "What Kind of Learner are You?" Inventory

Websites: About Learning Styles
LDRC Learning Disabilities Resource Community website has a good explanation of 8 learning styles/multiple intelligences as well resources, articles, and helpful definitions. http://www.ldrc.ca/projects/miinventory/miinventory.php?eightstyles=1

INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY's Learning Style Site has indepth learning style information for older students,
http://www.indstate.edu/cirt/id/pedagogies/styles/ls1.html

Websites: Determining Learning Styles
Learning Styles chart for determining learning styles, http://www.chaminade.org/inspire/learnstl.ht

HOW TO BE A SUCCESSFUL STUDENT website's, "How to Identify Your Best Learning Styles" inventory, http://www.marin.cc.ca.us/~don/Study/13styles.html

LEARNING STYLES by R.M. Felder website includes information, resources and an "Index of Learning Styles Questionnaire,"
http://www.engr.ncsu.edu/learningstyles/ilsweb.html

LEARNING STYLES ON THE WEB by Karen J. Ristuccia's website.
The Learning Style Teaching Methods section is very good, http://www2.gsu.edu/~dschjb/wwwmbti.html

LDPRIDE
Information about learning styles and Multiple Intelligence (MI). Interactive learning styles test.
http://www.ldpride.net/learningstyles.MI.htm

PRO TEACHER! DIRECTORY's website includes a repository of links to information, resources, inventories, and more, http://www.proteacher.com/040009.shtml

TRACKSTAR'S Learning Styles website includes information, resources, links, on-line tests and inventories, etc. http://trackstar.4teachers.org/trackstar/index.jsp

The UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA's website has a free learning styles inventory: http://usd.edu/~bwjames/tut/learning-style/

"What's Your Child's Primary Learning Style" quiz from FAMILY EDUCATION.COM's website http://familyeducation.com/quiz/0,1399,3-2740,00.html

School Vendor Products: (For purchase)
"The Kaleidoscope Profile." Inexpensive, but comprehensive. Purchase from PERFORMANCE LEARNING SYSTEMS, INC. (PLS). Four editions available: (1) educators, (2) professionals in the workplace, (3) students grades 3 - 6, (4) students grades 7 - 12. http://www.plsweb.com

Barsch Learning Style Inventory, revised edition. Children ages 14 to adult. Purchase this hardcopy inventory from ACADEMIC THERAPY PUBLICATIONS, http://www.academictherapy.com/detailATP.tpl?action=search&eqskudatarq=905-2

Books:
(The books listed below are available from various book stores).

AWAKENING YOUR CHILD'S NATURAL GENIUS: ENHANCING CURIOSITY, CREATIVITY, AND LEARNING ABILITY by Thomas Armstrong; ISBN: 0874776082, J.P. Tarcher, 1991.

DISCOVER YOUR CHILD'S LEARNING STYLE (CHILDREN LEARN IN UNIQUE WAYS -- HERE'S THE KEY TO EVERY CHILD'S LEARNING SUCCESS) by Mariaemma Willis, M.S. and Victoria Kindle Hodson, M.A.; ISBN 0761520139, Prima Publishing, 1999.

EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING ... EXPERIENCE AS THE SOURCE OF LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT by David A. Kolb; ISBN: 0132952610, Prentice Hall, 1983.

FRAMES OF MIND: THE THEORY OF MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES by Howard Gardner; ISBN: 0465025102, Basic Books, 1993.

GROWING UP LEARNING -- IDENTIFYING AND TEACHING CHILDREN WITH DIFFERENT LEARNING STYLES by Walter B. Barbe, Ph.D.; ISBN: 1567620884, Modern Learning Press, 1998.

HOW TO MAXIMIZE YOUR CHILD'S LEARNING ABILITY -- A COMPLETE GUIDE TO CHOOSING AND USING THE BEST GAMES, TOYS, ACTIVITIES, LEARNING AIDS & TACTICS FOR YOUR CHILD by Dr. Lauren Bradway and Barbara Albers Hill; ISBN: 089529519, Avery Publishing Group, Inc., 1993.

IN THEIR OWN WAY -- DISCOVERING AND ENCOURAGING YOUR CHILD'S PERSONAL LEARNING STYLE by Thomas Armstrong, Ph.D.; ISBN: 0874774462, Jeremy P. Tarcher, Inc., 1987.

MARCHING TO DIFFERENT DRUMMERS by Pat Burke Guild and Stephen Garger; ISBN: 1871203065, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 1998.

MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES: THE THEORY IN PRACTICE by Howard Gardner; ISBN: 046501822X, Basic Books, 1993.

PLEASE UNDERSTAND ME: CHARACTER AND TEMPERAMENT TYPES by David Keirsey and Marilyn Bates; ISBN: 0960695400, Prometheus Nemesis Book Co., 1984.

SEVEN KINDS OF SMART by Thomas Armstrong; ISBN: 0452281377, Plume, 1999.

TAMING THE DRAGONS: REAL HELP FOR REAL SCHOOL PROBLEMS by Susan Setley; ISBN: 1886243042, Susan G. Setley, 1995.