Learning Styles Inventory (www. learning-styles-online.com) measures seven dimensions of a person's learning preferences: visual (spatial), aural (auditory -- musical), verbal (linguistic), physical (kinesthetic), logical (mathematical), social (interpersonal), and solitary (intrapersonal). The Learning Styles Inventory consists of 70 questions rated on a three-point Likert scale (0 = not like me at all, 1 = partially like me, 2 = always like me). This writer scored relatively high in the areas of logical, visual, verbal, and solitary preferences scoring the lowest on the musical scale. What this means is the subject tends to favor traditional ways of learning, prefers to learn alone (however, there was also a high score on the social scale), and does not prefer to use rhymes or musical -- type mnemonics or memory strategies as much. The Learning Styles Inventory is an interesting approach to understanding how a person attempts to approach learning and academics...

Some students may prefer social (group) study situations, whereas others like this writer may prefer to tackle material on their own. Preferences for understanding material can range from logic and visual aids to other types of aides that allow a person to individualize their approach to learning material.
While The Learning Styles Inventory appears to have some similarities to Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences (1983), it does not appear to be fully based on Gardner's theory. Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences is based on his disdain for the notion of a single construct of intelligence that is favored by many researchers. Gardner's theory has outlined at least 10 different intelligences ranging from Spatial Intelligence…