Index of Learning Styles (ILS) Survey

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The idea of "learning styles" (preferences for learning in one mode over another) is decades old, dating back to Dr. Howard Gardner's theory of Multiple Intelligences, published in 1983. In 1988, Dr. Richard Felder (professor of chemical engineering at North Carolina State University) and Dr. Linda K. Silverman (educational psychologist) published the Felder-Silverman model, The model divides learning into four categories, much like the well-known Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) personality test.

The Index of Learning Styles (ILS) survey was created in 1993 by Prof. Richard M. Felder and Barbara A. Solomon at North Carolina State University. The survey uses a series of questions to predict your learning style with respect to four dimensions that reflect how people learn.

This form is an exact reproduction of Felder & Solomon's survey. I have recreated it for the sole purpose of being able to receive emails with my students' results, which I believe falls with the rights that they have granted to educators for noncommercial use of their survey.

The goals of this survey are:

To give you a sense of the modes in which you learn most easily.
To give you a sense of the modes of learning that are most challenging for you, so you will know what you need to work on. (The better you learn how to learn in your non-preferred modes, the more successful you will be in college and career.)
To give your teacher(s) an idea of what modes of learning are more likely to be successful if you are struggling.

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