Learning Styles are the manner in which people's brains learn and store information. Many types of learning styles exist.  

Some theorists group them into a series of three sensory types, which are the most familiar to people.  Most other types of learning styles are extensions of these three basic styles:

Howard Gardner theorizes a group of seven learning styles call Multiple Intelligences.

Again, learning about these learning styles will help you understand yourself and your abilities, enhancing your ability to learn.

Myers Briggs is a major test to determine people's personality "type." Its goal is to help people understand each other and to communicate better.   To read about the Myers Briggs test, click here.

• How Do I Learn Best? - VARK (Visual, Aural, Read/write, and Kinesthetic) learning styles inventory; a variation of the Kolb's model. The online test is no longer available free.  However, they do offer paper and pencil.

• Index of Learning Styles Questionnaire - by Barbara A. Soloman and Richard M. Felder of North Carolina State University. Online test.

• Jung types - Where are you on the judging, sensing, thinking and intuitive scale?

• Keirsey Learning Styles Information:
  • Online Keirsey Learning Styles tests
  • Interpretation of Keirsey Learning Style tests
  • Type Logic -  What's your type from the above test?  Read more about your type.
  • Keirsey Character Sorter  
  • Keirsey Temperament Sorter  - Along with the Keirsey Temperament Sorter questionnaire are descriptions of the personality temperaments. Dr. Keirsey's descriptions of temperament are based on his own studies of people, as well as his work in the field of psychology. In particular, his descriptions have been influenced by the works of Jung, Myers, Kretschmer, Spranger, Fromm, Haley, Bateson, and others. 
    
    The Keirsey Temperament Sorter, like all personality tests, is only a preliminary and rough indicator of personality. Please don't accept any personality test results without checking them out by watching people in action. People-watching enables you to detect the difference between what people say they do habitually and what they actually do. If the test results - as occasionally happens - don't fit your personality, they nonetheless provide a good place to start looking for a portrait that fits. Perhaps after you have read many portraits, and even asked others which of the portraits best describe you, you may be able to begin to define your own personality. 
    
    The brief descriptions on this web site are short versions of the descriptions in "Please Understand Me" or "Please Understand Me II." After identifying your personality, you might want to read the corresponding personality portrait in one or both of these books to decide if the description fits. 
    
    Excerpted from "Please Understand Me II" by David Keirsey Copyrighted © 1998

• Kolb's Learning Styles - an explanation of the four learning dimensions in the Kolb model.
  • Kolb's Learning Styles - another explanation of Kolb's learning style

• Learning Style Inventory for College - written by Catherine Jester, Learning Disability Specialist of Diablo Valley College. Online test.

• Learning Styles Chart - one page chart listing various activities and the accompanying learning style.

• Learning Styles Inventory - from Learning to Study through Critical Thinking by Jonelle A. Beatrice.

• Lumpers and Splitters - OCTC

• Middle Tennessee State University Site- excellent site by Middle Tennessee State University. This web-site contains information about various learning styles and some tests to help you determine your style. When you are in the site, click on a topic (on the left side of the page) to explore your learning styles. Begin with Hemispheric Dominance (Left of Right Brain Dominance) and work your way down the list. 

• On Learning Styles - teaching students with various learning styles (Myer's-Briggs Type Indicator). Copyright: Harvey J. Brightman, Georgia State University

• Seven Styles of Learning

• Success Types Survival Strategies - excellent site by John W. Pelley, Ph.D. author of "SuccessTypes for Medical Students," which is located in our Center's Study Skill and Learning Styles area.

• Thirty Things We Know for Sure about Adult Learners

• Using your learning type for language learning

• Books
  • Becoming a Master Student by Dave Ellis
  • How to Study Science by Fred Drewes
  • SuccessTypes for Medical Students:  A Program for Improving Academic Performance by Dr. John W. Pelley
  • Success Your Style! Right-Left-Brain Techniques for Learning by Nancy Lightfoot Matte and Susan Hilary Green Henderson
• CD-ROM
  • Multi-media Study Skills - which includes a sensory learning styles test..