Buyers Guide on Learning Styles Questionnaire (80-item) - Booklet

Revised edition - July 2006

We all have preferred ways of learning and learn better from some activities than others. This comprehensive booklet provides individuals with all the tools they need to identify their preferred learning style(s), to select learning opportunities that suit stronger style(s) and to develop weaker styles.  The booklet contains information on the Learning Cycle, as well as the 80-item Learning Styles Questionnaire and scoring.  This booklet supersedes Using Your Learning Styles (1995) and The Learning Styles Questionnaire (80-item version) published in September 2000 (ISBN 1 902899 07 5).

Important Note: If you have used The Learning Styles Questionnaire (80-item version) before, it is important you are aware of the key changes we have made to the 2006 edition.

  • More comprehensive "Suggestions for Action" - now based on each indivdual question.

  • The Questionnaire has been re-numbered to make the Score Key easier to use.

 

What is the purpose of this booklet?

To help people become better all round learners from experience by providing all the tools required to identify and understand the implications of their learning style preferences.

Is it for me?

This booklet is primarily aimed at individuals for purposes of self-development and would also be ideal for consultants, trainers, managers, developers - indeed anyone looking for a reliable, tried and tested learning style(s) instrument to help people with the learning to learn process. As an individual knowing your preferred learning style(s) will help to ensure that you make the most of any learning opportunities offered to you.  It will also help you to maximise your potential by helping you become a more effective learner from experience. 

 

The booklet will show you how to:

  • Understand why you learn more easily from some activities than others
  • Maximise your learning by choosing activities that suit your stronger style(s)
  • Recognise and select the most appropriate learning opportunities
  • Understand what kind of training methods will be most effective for you
  • Increase your effectiveness by strengthening your less preferred styles
  • Know where to look for help and support
  • Become a better all round learner from experience.

In how many ways could I use the booklet?

  • Use the booklet as the basis for a self-development plan
  • Improve your overall effectiveness and performance by working through all the stages in the learning cycle.
  • Design much more relevant and cost effective training programmes
  • Identify learning strengths and weaknesses within your organisation
  • Use the booklet as part of a learning to learn session.

 

Copyright and Photocopying

All rights reserved. This questionnaire and supporting material is the copyright of Dr Peter Honey and Alan Mumford.  It may not be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, recording or otherwise without prior permission of Peter Honey Publications Ltd.