Individual Learning Style Assessments

Sensory-Modality-Based Instruments

  • VARK Questionnaire: Assesses preferences for Visual, Aural, Read/Write, and Kinesthetic learning; 16 questions with multimodal strategies. (10-18 years)
  • EducationPlanner Learning Styles Quiz: Identifies Visual, Auditory, or Tactile preferences through everyday scenarios; includes study tips. (12-18 years)
  • MentalUP Learning Style Test: Comprehensive quiz assessing visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and reading/writing styles, plus cognitive strengths; gamified. (10-18 years)
  • You For Youth Learning Styles Questionnaire (Y4Y): Determines visual, auditory, or tactile preferences via self-reflection; includes classroom tips. (10-18 years)
  • Free Learning Style Quiz (LearningStyleQuiz.com): Assesses visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and reading/writing styles; provides grade/skill improvement strategies. (12-18 years)

Personality and Cognitive-Based Instruments

  • Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI): Evaluates personality types (e.g., introversion/extroversion) influencing learning; adapted MMTIC for kids. (12-18 years)
  • Kolb’s Learning Style Inventory (LSI): Identifies styles like Accommodating, Assimilating, Diverging, Converging based on experiential learning. (12-18 years)
  • Felder and Solomon’s Index of Learning Styles (ILS): Measures Active/Reflective, Sensing/Intuitive, Visual/Verbal, Sequential/Global dimensions. (14-18 years)
  • Honey and Mumford Learning Styles Questionnaire (LSQ): Categorizes as Activist, Reflector, Theorist, Pragmatist; practical focus. (14-18 years)
  • Allinson and Hayes’ Cognitive Styles Index (CSI): Assesses intuitive vs. analytical processing styles for decision-making in learning. (14-18 years)

Multi-Factor Instruments

  • Dunn and Dunn Learning Style Inventory (LSI): Evaluates 20+ elements across environmental, emotional, sociological, physiological, and psychological factors. (10-18 years)
  • Self-Portrait™ Power Traits Assessment: Assesses disposition, modality, environment, interests, talents, and inner clock; includes parent/teacher input. (10-18 years)
  • C.I.T.E. Learning Styles Instrument: Covers information gathering, work conditions, and expressiveness; scores as major/minor/negligible. (10-18 years)
  • Vermunt’s Inventory of Learning Styles (ILS): Measures learning activities, orientations, and mental models (e.g., meaning-directed). (14-18 years)
  • Learning Style Scales (LSS): Targets perceptive, solitary, analytic, competitive, and imaginative styles; based on social interaction and processing. (14-18 years)
  • SUU Learning Styles Self-Assessment: Informal quiz covering social/independent, spatial/verbal, applied/conceptual, auditory/visual, creative/pragmatic. (10-18 years)

Other Specialized or Emerging Instruments

  • Harbor and Sprout Learning Style Quiz: Explores 7 styles (e.g., visual, verbal, physical); gamified with homeschool ties. (10-14 years)
  • TeacherLists Learning Styles Quiz: Identifies primary styles with frustration-reduction tips; parent/teacher-focused. (10-18 years)
  • Visual-Active Learning Style Instrument: Uses figures/charts to assess preferences beyond text; categorizes mild/moderate/pure. (12-18 years)
  • Early Years TV Learning Styles Assessment: Interactive quiz for core style preferences; includes guide. (10-14 years)
  • ASVAB CEP Learning Style Tools: Links learning styles to career exploration; part of aptitude program. (14-18 years)

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