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Kolb Learning Style Inventory

Kolb Learning Style Inventory. Created by Olga Maleyev 2012 Text and images are based on the Hay’Group Learning Style Inventory LSI Workbook 3.1. How we learn. We all learn in different ways

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Kolb Learning Style Inventory

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  1. Kolb Learning Style Inventory Created by Olga Maleyev 2012 Text and images are based on the Hay’Group Learning Style Inventory LSI Workbook 3.1

  2. How we learn • We all learn in different ways • The Kolb Learning Style Inventory (LSI) is designed to help us to understand how we learn best in educational settings or everyday life • Learning can be described as a cycle made up of four basic phases • The LSI takes us through those four phases to give us a better understanding of how we learn

  3. Knowing Your Learning Style Helps To Understand: • How to maximize your learning from educational programs • How you solve problems • How you work in teams • How to manage disagreement and conflict • How you make career choices • How to improve personal professional relationship

  4. Understanding The Learning Styles

  5. What Is Your Style? Accommodating Diverging Converging Assimilating

  6. Diverging Style (concrete, reflective) • Best viewing situation from many different points of view • Prefer to observer rather than take action • Enjoy brainstorming sessions • Have broad cultural interest and like to gather ideas • In formal learning situation may prefer working in groups to gather information, listening with an open mind and receiving personalized feedback • Arts and entertainment, communications, social service

  7. AssimilatingStyle (abstract, reflective) • Best understanding wide range of information and putting it into concise , logical form. • Less focused on people and more interested in abstract ideas and concepts • Find it’s more important that a theory has a logical soundness than practical value • In formal learning situation may prefer lectures, readings, exploring analytical models and having time to think things through on their own. • Sciences and mathematics, legal profession, research and higher education

  8. Converging Style (abstract, active) • Best in finding a practical uses for ideas and theories • Have an ability to solve problems and make decisions based on finding solutions to questions or problems • Would rather deal with technical tasks and problem than with social and interpersonal issues • In formal learning may prefer experimenting with new ideas, simulations, laboratory assignments and practical applications. • Computer science and engineering, finance and economics, medicine, applied science

  9. Accommodating Style (concrete, active) • Learn primarily from “hand-on” experience • Enjoy carrying out plans and involving yourself in new and challenging experiences • Have tendency to act on intuition rather than on logical analysis • In solving problem rely more heavily on people for information than own technical analysis • In formal learning situation may prefer to work with others to get assignment done and to test out different approaches • Management, HR, teaching, sales, nursing

  10. Learning to ride a bicycle: • Divergent Thinking about riding and watching another person ride a bike. • Assimilative Understanding the theory and having a clear grasp of the biking concept. • Accommodative Receiving practical tips and techniques from a biking expert. • Convergent Leaping on the bike and have a go at it.

  11. Basic Strengths Of Each Learning Style

  12. Strengthening and Developing Each Learning Style Tips for strengthening a use of the Diverging Style • Tune in to people feelings • Be sensitive to values • Listen with an open mind • Gather information • Imagine the implications of the ambiguous situation

  13. Strengthening and Developing Each Learning Style Tips for strengthening a use of the Assimilating Style • Organize information • Test the theories and ideas of others • Build conceptual models • Design experiments • Analyze data

  14. Strengthening and Developing Each Learning Style Tips for strengthening a use of the Converging Style • Create new ways of thinking and doing • Experiment with new ideas • Choose the best solution • Set goals • Make decisions

  15. Strengthening and Developing Each Learning Style Tips for strengthening a use of the Accommodating Style • Commit yourself to objectives • Seek new opportunities • Influence and lead others • Become personally involved • Deal with people

  16. Solving Problem Process • Identifying the problem • Selecting the problem to solve • Seeing different solutions • Evaluating possible results • Implementing the solution

  17. Other Areas Of Life Understanding the Learning Style helps: • Working in a team • Resolving a conflict • Communicating at work • Communicating at home • Being a parent • Managing money • Considering a career • Designing training materials for students

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