Learning Style Assessment

To help enable your tutor to construct a highly effective tutoring plan, please complete the assessment below.

Instructions: Click on the appropriate button after each statement. After answering all questions, your results will confirm the ranking of each learning style. Answer each question honestly. Your basic information is required to receive results*

Understanding the basis of learning styles

Your preferred styles guide the way you learn. They also change the way you internally represent experiences, the way you recall information, and even the words you choose.

Research shows us that each learning style engages different parts of your brain. By triggering more of the brain during learning, we remember more of what we learn. Researchers using brain-imaging technologies have been able to map the key areas of the brain responsible for each learning style.

For example:

• Visual: The occipital lobes at the back of the brain manage the visual sense. Both the occipital and parietal lobes manage spatial orientation.
• Aural: The temporal lobes handle aural content. The right temporal lobe is especially important for music.
• Verbal: The temporal and frontal lobes, especially two specialized areas called Broca¡s and Wernicke¡s areas (in the left hemisphere of these two lobes).
• Physical: The cerebellum and the motor cortex (at the back of the frontal lobe) handle much of our physical movement.
• Logical: The parietal lobes, especially the left side, drive our logical thinking.
• Social: The frontal and temporal lobes handle much of our social activities. The limbic system (not shown apart from the hippocampus) also influences both the social and solitary styles. The limbic system has a lot to do with emotions, moods and aggression.
• Solitary: The frontal and parietal lobes, and the limbic system, are also active with this style.

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