1. After this module you should be able to:
Learning Styles
After this module you should be able to:
Differentiate between different learning styles
Identify your personal learning style
Distinguish how to students can use their learning style to improve class performance
Balance your teaching style to reach more students

2. Inventory of Learning Styles (ILS)
Instrument: Felder-Soloman Inventory of Learning Styles (ILS)
Developed for engineering students
Adult ILS
Has been used for sciences
ILS reliable and valid
About the ILS
Students get
Immediate results
Scaled ratings with explanation and can print out
Faculty learn their own learning styles and understand how they teach
Learning Styles & Strategies

3. Learning Styles Instrument
Four-dimensional model
Active and Reflective Learners (ACT/REF)
Sensing and Intuitive Learners (SEN/INT)
Visual and Verbal Learners (VIS/VER)
Sequential and Global Learners (SEQ/GLO)

4. Summary of ILS
(1) the sensory method by which information is received; (2) the modality by which information is received; (3) the process by which information is received; (4) the order in which the information is received;
Sensing
concrete, practical
Intuitive
innovative, conceptual
Visual
pictures, diagrams preferred
Verbal
written and spoken information preferred
Active
prefer to do things
Reflective
prefer to think things through
Sequential
prefer to be orderly, linear
Global
holistic, system thinkers

5. My ILS Results NC STATE UNIVERSITY
    Results for: KGD
  ACT X REF
<-- -->
SEN X INT
VIS X VRB
SEQ X GLO
1-3, fairly well balanced on the two dimensions
5-7, moderate preference for one dimension
7-9, strong preference
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6. What are you ILS results?
How will you use this information?