A Learning Styles Inventory
A Learning Styles Inventory Do you learn best first thing in the morning, as soon as you jump out of bed? Or is it easier for you to grasp new information in the evening as you unwind after a full day? Maybe 3 in the afternoon is your best time to learn? Don't know? Find out! From Peak Learning: How to Create Your Own Lifelong Education Program for Personal Enlightenment and Professional Success by Ron Gross, a favorite About Continuing Education contributor, this learning style inventory will help you determine when you are most mentally alert. Ron writes: "It is now firmly established that each of us is mentally alert and motivated at certain times during the day.... You obtain three benefits to knowing your own peak and valley times for learning and adjusting your learning efforts: 1. You will enjoy your learning more when you feel in the mood for it. 2. You will learn faster and more naturally because you will not be fighting resistance, fatigue, and discomfort. 3. You will make better use of your "low" times by doing things other than trying to learn. Here's the test, presented with permission from Ron Gross Answer true or false to these questions:
1. I dislike getting up in the morning. 2. I dislike going to sleep at night. 3. I wish I could sleep all morning. 4. I stay awake for a long time after I get into bed. 5. I feel wide awake only after 10 in the morning. 6. If I stay up late at night, I get too sleepy to remember anything. 7. I usually feel a little tired after lunch. 8. When I have a task requiring concentration, I like to get up early in the morning to do it. 9. I'd rather do those tasks requiring concentration in the afternoon. 10. I usually start the tasks that require the most concentration after dinner. 11. I could stay up all night. 12. I wish I didn't have to go to school before noon. 13. I wish I could stay home during the day and go to work at night. 14. I like going to school in the morning. 15. I can remember things best when I concentrate on them: in the morning at lunchtime in the afternoon before dinner after dinner late at night
The test is self-scoring. Take note if the answers focus on a time of day: morning, noon, afternoon, evening, night and give yourself or the person you are asking a time of learning they prefer.
Source: http://adulted.about.com/od/learningstyles/a/Learning-Styles-Inventory-Your-PeakLearning-Time.htm Adapted from “Learning Styles Inventory” article on About.com
1. I dislike getting up in the morning. 2. I dislike going to sleep at night. 3. I wish I could sleep all morning. 4. I stay awake for a long time after I get into bed. 5. I feel wide awake only after 10 in the morning. 6. If I stay up late at night, I get too sleepy to remember anything. 7. I usually feel a little tired after lunch. 8. When I have a task requiring concentration, I like to get up early in the morning to do it. 9. I'd rather do those tasks requiring concentration in the afternoon. 10. I usually start the tasks that require the most concentration after dinner. 11. I could stay up all night. 12. I wish I didn't have to go to school before noon. 13. I wish I could stay home during the day and go to work at night. 14. I like going to school in the morning. 15. I can remember things best when I concentrate on them: in the morning at lunchtime in the afternoon before dinner after dinner late at night
The test is self-scoring. Take note if the answers focus on a time of day: morning, noon, afternoon, evening, night and give yourself or the person you are asking a time of learning they prefer.
Source: http://adulted.about.com/od/learningstyles/a/Learning-Styles-Inventory-Your-PeakLearning-Time.htm Adapted from “Learning Styles Inventory” article on About.com
