Part I: Learning Style Assessment

Are you a visual, auditory, tactile or kinesthetic learner - or a blend of two or more of these? Your natural preferences will determine how information is best presented to you to optimize your learning.

Instructions: Click the box beside the letter of the answer that is most like you. If there is a question that has more than one answer that is like you, click them.
1. What do you notice first when you meet a new person:
      A) The person's communications - how they talk, what they say, what their voice sounds like
      B) The person's actions - how they act, what they are doing
      C) The person's appearance - how they are dressed or what they look like
      D) Your feelings about the person - do you like them or not, do you have a sense of what they feel
 
2. After time has passed, how do you remember the new person?
      A) What you did together (even if you've forgotten their face or name)
      B) Their face
      C) How you felt about them (even if you've forgotten their face or name)
      D) Their name
 
3. You are entering a new room, what do you notice most?
      A) What's going on in the room or what you can do in the room
      B) Are you comfortable (emotionally or physically) in the room
      C) What sounds are in the room
      D) How the room looks
 
4. Choose the description that is most like you:
      A) You cry at sad parts in books, songs and movies
      B) You notice if someone is badly or oddly dressed and want to fix their appearance
      C) You cannot sit still too long and don't like staying in one place too long
      D) You notice if someone is hard to understand, speaks poorly and you notice all environmental noise - cars honking, faucets dripping, air conditioners droning
 
5. Which of the following would you most like to do in your free time?
      A) Read a book or magazine
      B) Play sports, dance, explore, go visiting
      C) Listen to music, radio, or audio-taped books
      D) Write, draw, create something with your hands
 
6. What type of books are your favorites?
      A) Books that emphasize feelings, emotions, self-improvement
      B) Factual, historical or books with dialogue to tell the story
      C) Highly descriptive books that let you see what you are reading about
      D) Action books or how-to books that teach you a sport, skill, or hobby
 
7. What environment do you like to work or study in?
      A) You need to be comfortable and emotionally peaceful - noise doesn't matter but negative feelings are distracting
      B) You need to be comfortable but there can be other activities or movement going on. Noise and music don't distract you.
      C) It doesn't matter what's going on, you can pretty much tune it out
      D) You need silence because music, TV, talking breaks your concentration
 
8. Which is the environment you would dislike most?
      A) Uncomfortable physically or emotionally
      B) An area of restricted movement - either movement is not allowed or there is not enough space
      C) Too quiet
      D) Dirty, messy, disorganized
 
9. What is the best way for you to learn something new?
      A) You do a physical project about it - experiment, role-play, simulate, explore, do activities
      B) You draw or write about it - type on a keyboard, create or build something, make a model, work with materials that relate to the subject
      C) You hear about it - lecture, discussion, questions, audio-tapes - with no reading, writing or activities
      D) You read about it - papers, books, charts, maps - with no discussion or writing
 
10. If someone asks you to teach them something, how do you do it?
      A) Demonstrate by acting out and having them practice with you
      B) Tell them all about the subject - but do not give them visual material
      C) Give them something to read or look at - with little or no explanation or discussion
      D) Give them a drawing or write a description or demonstrate with your hands
 
11. You are memorizing new words. What works best for you?
      A) Write it
      B) Hear it
      C) Act it out
      D) See it
 
12. What is the worst way to teach you something?
      A) Silent reading
      B) Looking and listening without being able to move
      C) No ability to take notes and doodle (even if you never see your notes again)
      D) Lectures with no visuals
 
13. Think back on a great incident in your life. After thinking about it, what stands out most in your mind?
      A) What you did - your actions, your performance
      B) What you heard - dialogues, conversations, environmental sounds
      C) How you felt - sensations on your skin, how you felt physically and emotionally
      D) What you saw - images of people, places, things
 
14. Where would you most enjoy spending time?
      A) Somewhere to play sports, act in a play, do experiments or explore, or build and repair mechanical things
      B) Somewhere you can hear/listen - listen to music, stories, TV, talk shows, news; play an instrument or sing; do word games; be a disc-jockey
      C) Anywhere you can do creative work like draw, paint, do crafts or sculpture; play instruments or games, or do creative writing
      D) Somewhere you can read - see books, pictures, photos, artwork, graphics, maps; doing visual puzzles like matching pictures, working with mazes; draw room plans, decorate rooms, play word games, get dressed up