Lame Learning Styles Questionnaire

1. Recall a time in your life when you learned how to do something like playing a new board game. How did to learn best? By

Visual clues—pictures, diagrams, written instructions

Listening to somebody explaining it?

Experimenting, trying it out?

2. You are having difficulty finding your way to your hotel in city where you have stayed only a few days. Do you

Walk/drive around and try to find a familiar landmark?

Ask directions?

Look at a map?

3. You need to learn to use a new program on a computer. Would you

Ask a friend to walk you through it?

Look at the manual that comes with the program

Telephone a friend. and ask questions about it?

4. You are not sure whether a word should be spelled "dependent" or "dependant." Do you.

Picture the word in your mind and choose the on that looks right?

Sound it out in your mind?

Write both versions down and pick the one that feels right?

5. Do you prefer a lecturer/teacher who likes to use

Flow diagrams, handouts, slides?

Field trips, labs, practical sessions?

Discussion, guest speakers?

6. You have purchased an item that requires assembly. Would the easiest way for you to figure out how to put it together be to:

Listen to a tape describing the steps you need to take?

Start putting it together and assemble it through trial and error?

Watch a video of it or read printed instructions?

7. You're taking care of a friend's house while he or she is on vacation. You need to quickly learn how to take care of your friend's yard and/or pets. Is it best for you to

Watch someone do it?

Get instructions and discuss it thoroughly?

Have someone walk you through it?

8. A person gives you a very important number (such as a phone number, code, or serial number) to remember. To be sure that you will remember it, would you

Repeat it to yourself or someone else?

Make a mental picture of it?

Write or type it once or more?

9. You have to make an oral presentation to a small group. Are you most comfortable that you will be able to make this presentation when you have

A good sense of the basic tone and words you want to communicate?

Rehearsed the presentation a number of times?

Diagrams and notes that you can look at during the presentation?

10. Which of the following hobbies do you most enjoy?

Walking outdoors/ gardening/ dancing

Drawing/ painting/ sightseeing/ photography

Music/ singing/ storytelling

11. To acquire a new skill, do you most prefer to