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This is a limited set of resource sites. We will include more shortly.

• Abiator's Online Learning Styles Inventory
• Index of Learning Styles - The Index of Learning Styles is an instrument used to assess preferences on four dimensions (active/reflective, sensing/intuitive, visual/verbal, and sequential/global) of a learning style model formulated by Richard M. Felder and Linda K. Silverman.
• Keirsey Temperament Sorter- Jungian Personality Test
• Learning & Working Styles Inventory
• Multiple Intelligences Learning Style Inventory
• Myers-Briggs and Learning Styles - This file discusses briefly (1) the four dimensions underlying the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), and (2) several teaching approaches that will appeal to different MBTI profiles.
• PERSONAL LEARNING INVENTORY
• Personal Learning Style Inventory
• Price Systems, Inc.
• The Index of Learning Styles

Learning Styles Resources*

• About Learning (4Mat) Learning/Teaching styles based on Kolb
• Bibliography of Learning Style Literature
• Cognitive Profile "How We Learn and Why We Don't"
• Critical Thinking via Oregon State University
• Dunn & Dunn 21 elements that affect learning
• A Guide to Learning Styles: VARK Visual, Aural, Read/Write, Kinesthetic
• Learning Styles Strategies with assessment via Oregan State University
• VAK inventory via Penn State
• Learning Styles Chart via Chaminade web site
• David Kolb's Learning Styles via HayGroup web site
• Improve your own learning.  Learning styles questionnaire via University of Surrey
• Learning Styles via Algonquin College
• LASSI 10-scale, 80-item assessment of students' awareness about and use of learning and study strategies.
• Learning Connections Inventory
• Learning-Styles-online.com
• MBTI for the college student via Glendale Community College
• "HELLO, SATURN!" "HELLO, NEPTUNE!" Communicating with People from Another Planet
• Four question personality test similar to MBTI
• Paragon Learning Styles Inventory
• Study Behavior Inventory article and instrument

Overview:

There has been a great deal of work on  learning styles over the last 2 decades. Dunn and Dunn (http://www.learningstyles.net/) focused on identifying relevant stimuli that may influence learning and manipulating the school environment, at about the same time as Joseph Renzulli recommended varying teaching strategies. Howard Gardner identified individual talents or aptitudes in his Multiple Intelligences theories.  Based on the works of Jung, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and the Paragon Learning Styles Inventory focused on understanding how people's personality affects the way they interact personally, and how this affects the way individuals respond to each other within the learning environment. The work of David Kolb and Anthony Gregorc's Type Delineator follows a similar but more simplified approach.

Online Articles:

• Learning Styles Pedagogy
  URL: http://cyg.net/~jblackmo/diglib/styl-a.html
  An online article outlining "Learning styles Pedagogy " by Jessica Blackmore (1996 Updated by)
• Diverse Learning Styles Through the Use of Multimedia
  URL: http://fre.www.ecn.purdue.edu/FrE/asee/fie95/3a2/3a22/3a22.htm
  Interesting Paper addressing "Diverse Learning Styles Through the Use of Multimedia" by Susan Montgomery, University of Michigan
• Using Learning Styles to Adapt Technology for Higher Education
  URL: http://web.indstate.edu/ctl/styles/learning.html#STYLES
  Paper by Terry O'Connor Indiana State University an housed on the Center for teaching and Learning web site
• Exploring Learning Styles and Instruction
  URL: http://jwilson.coe.uga.edu/EMT705/EMT705.Hood.html
  Karen Hoodís paper on learning styles and instruction.
• Section of articles posted to the National Teaching and Learning Forum
• Learning Styles Can Become Learning Strategies
  URL http://www.ntlf.com/html/pi/9511/article1.htm
• Learning Styles
  URL: http://www.ntlf.com/html/lib/bib/88dig.htm
• Selected Resources on Teaching and Learning
  URL: http://www.ntlf.com/html/lib/bib/bib.htm
• Learning the Critical Theory- White Paper on adult education in an information age.
  URL: http://www.wavetech.com/whtpaper/abttmwp.html
  Interesting overview posted on a commercial training company with an overview of learning theory, styles, strategies and includes a assessment tool.