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Might be some good tips in here as we close in on the end of the year.

A 16-question online questionnaire to help students identify their preference for a visual, auditory, or kinesthetic learning style. Also includes some information about the styles.

A 44-question online questionnaire which can help students understand their own learning preferences. The site also includes supporting research on the instrument. Interesting for measuring learning preferences along 4 separate dimensions, instead of looking for a single dominant preference.

A 30-question PDF questionnaire which can help students understand their learning preferences. The PDF also includes descriptions of the 3 different styles measured, and study tips for people who prefer (or wish to develop) those styles.

Interesting list of prompts which ask students to reflect on their learning process and preferences. Some of these might make good course evaluation questions. How do you help students reflect on their time at Kenyon?

"perhaps VAK is just a version of the same problem scholars run into time and again, the pull of catchy-but-wrong ideas against the nebulous, unsatisfying ones that are closer to the truth."

According to the authors, much of what is widely claimed about learning styles - primarily that learners learn best when they learn in their preferred mode, be it visually, auditorily, or kinesthetically - is simply not backed up with research. They believe that the widespread belief in learning styles has real costs to teachers and students. Faculty neglect other, well-established learning theories and students neglect other modes of learning out of a misplaced belief that they can't learn well in those modes.

Another interesting wrinkle in the learning preferences literature. Feeling that learning something was easy is not the same as learning it well.