Learning Style Inventory
David A. Kolb
Learning
• Has many faces…
• Domains
• Cognitive
• Psychomotoric
• Affective
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Learning as practising
Learning of knowledge
Learning of (complex) skills
Integral learning (competencies)
Experiential…
Learning Cycle
Categories / Profiles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits
Marketing: bonuscard of supermarket;
stranger,acquiantance, friend, family
Soccer: defender, striker, winger, back, goalkeeper
Learning styles: task oriented (!)
tasks connected to your
functioning as a student in daily practice
Let’s DO it!
Let me see…
what’s happening here…
Let me think…
Can I understand this? Can I discover patterns, regularities,
systems, concepts, …
We’re going THAT way!
The questionnaire
Statements
Applies to me in general? Yes/No
Statements are linked to dimensions (in this case: learning styles)
Dimensions: a label for a coherent group of characteristics
There is always a “mix” of the available styles with certain accents
The categorization is not a goal, but a tool for reflection
• Task (what you have to do)
• Individual (who you are: personality, skills,
…)
• Situation (where you are, context)
First group meeting
(small groups)
• Look at the Menu of the Blackboard
course
• Download the Questionnaire
• Read the instruction … J
• Fill in the questionnaire
• Mail it to your study councelor
• Try to score your questionnaire, check the
descriptions and relate them to your own
opinion