Have you ever wondered why some people in your training sessions learn more than others? It may have something to do with your participants’ personal learning styles, or the way in which they approach and absorb new experiences.

Help your participants to become more efficient and focused learners with the Learning Styles Questionnaire (LSQ). Based on Kolb’s theory of learning, the LSQ is an in-depth instrument that helps respondents identify a preference for one of four learning styles: Activist, Reflector, Theorist, or Pragmatist.

Learning Outcomes
 
Combining the self-assessment with the companion Workbook, Capitalizing on Your Learning Style, the LSQ helps:

• Identify learning style preference
• Balance the learning styles of groups
• Surface team learning difficulties
• Expand learning style range

Theory
 
Authors Honey and Mumford based the Learning Styles Questionnaire on Kolb’s 4-stage process of learning. They identify 4 main learning styles:

• Activists: Involve themselves fully and without bias in new experiences, enjoy the here and now, and are gregarious people.
• Reflectors: Stand back to ponder experiences, collect data, tend to postpone reaching definitive conclusions, and have a slightly distant, tolerant, unruffled air about them.
• Theorists: Adapt and integrate observation into complex but logically sound theories, tend be perfectionists, and can be detached and analytical.
• Pragmatists: Try out theories to see if they work in practice, act quickly and confidently on ideas that attract them, are impatient with ruminating discussions, and are essentially down-to-earth.

Each of these styles corresponds to a stage on the continuous learning cycle, shown below:

How It Works

Learning Styles Questionnaire (LSQ) is available in both e-Assessment and paper-based formats. Both versions can be self-administered and self-scored. First, participants identify their preferred learning styles by responding to 80 statements. The Capitalizing on Your Learning Style Workbook then provides further insight, helping participants to interpret scores and learn how to utilize learning strengths and develop learning styles not currently used. The Workbook also includes tips on choosing learning experiences that dovetail with style. Scoring of the e-Assessment version is automatic.
 
Both the paper-based and e-Assessment versions include tips on improving skill in each of the listening dimensions as well as action planning questions.  The e-Assessment version provides a personalized, full-color report (view sample).

Uses for LSQ

• Balance the learning styles of groups
• Help trainers identify the dominant learning style of participants
• Surface team-learning difficulties
• Help managers understand and motivate their employees
• Discuss the learning process
• Help participants expand their learning style range

What to Order/Product Contents

Order 1 Facilitator Guide per trainer. For each participant, order 1 Participant Guide and 1 Capitalizing on Your Learning Style Workbook.

Recently re-formatted, the LSQ Facilitator Guide includes new features - a sample copy of the Participant Guide and the Capitalizing on Your Learning Style Workbook, a CD-ROM, and a convenient binder format.

   Facilitator Guide includes:

• Administrative guidelines
• Theoretical background
• Description of the 4 Learning Styles
• The 4-Stage Learning Cycle
• Tips to match learning activities with styles
• How the Facilitator Can Use Learning Styles
• Helping to Create Personal Development Plans
• Style strengths and weaknesses
• Designing Learning to Learn Sessions
• Normative data
• Reliability and Validity
• Sample training designs
• Overhead transparency masters
• Sample copy of the Participant Guide NEW!
• Capitalizing on Your Learning Style workbook NEW!
• Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation and reproducible masters on CD-ROM NEW!
• Suggestions for further reading on the topic of learning styles
• Convenient binder format NEW!

   Participant Guide includes:

• 80-item assessment
• Pressure-sensitive response form
• Description of the 4 Learning Styles

   Capitalizing on Your Learning Style Workbook includes:

• Understanding Your LSQ Results
• How to Choose Learning Activities that Suit Your Style
• Making Best Use of Your Learning Strengths
• Activities to improve each learning style
• Learning log

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