Here are links to some of the most common learning and teaching styles inventories used in education today.

Online Resources

1. Gardner's Multiple Intelligences http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/mi/index_sub7.html
A good website for exploring Howard Gardner's concept of multiple intelligence and its implications for teaching. Up-to-date (nine intelligences profiled) and includes a brief online inventory.

2. Kolb's Learning Styles Inventory (LSI)
http://www.learningandteaching.info/learning/experience.htm
Begin your exploration with the Introduction to Kolb's Learning Styles Inventory (LSI). This site provides a very useful explanation of David Kolb's experiential learning styles. You would have to pay to take Kolb's Learning Styles Inventory, but check out Algonquin College's PD offerings.you might find a Kolb workshop there!

3. MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator)
http://www.gsu.edu/~dschjb/wwwmbti.html
This site describes the four profiles in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and discusses teaching strategies that would appeal to each of these profiles.

4.Keirsey Temperament Sorter
http://www.keirsey.com/
This site will let you complete an online inventory to explore your temperament according to the MBTI profiles. This instrument should just be used to explore the concept of temperament; only the real MBTI Inventory can promise reliable and valid results.

4. The VARK Inventory
http://www.vark learn.com/learningstyles.htm
You can take this learning styles inventory to access your learning style preference: visual, aural, reading/writing, or kinesthetic. It is a nice one for your learners as it includes a guide for improved student learning.

5. Teaching Perspectives Inventory http://www.teachingperspectives.com/tpi_html/tpi_summaries.htm
A good description of the five teaching orientations identified in the Teaching Perspectives Inventory from Daniel Pratt and John Collins: transmission, apprenticeship, developmental, nurturing and social reform. (Thanks to Lindsay Harris, Police Foundations)

http://www.teachingperspectives.com/html/tpi_frames.htm
An online version of the Teaching Perspectives Inventory.

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