Learning Styles Questionnaire

Developed by Peter Honey and Alan Mumford and based upon David Kolb's Learning Cycle the Learning Styles Questionnaire (LSQ) measures an employees' preferred style of learning.

Overview

Duration

10/20 Minutes

40/80 Questions

Suitability

Suitable for all individuals

Available in 7 languages

Accreditation Requirement

British Psychological Society (BPS) Level A accreditation or by GFB providing feedback on the report at an additional cost.

Product Detail

The LSQ has been used extensively within organisations and schools for over 30 years to measure learning preferences in individuals. Its model is designed to help individuals think about and understand the way they learn from their experiences.

The LSQ is designed to measure an individual's preferences at each stage of the learning cycle and is available in 7 languages; UK English, French, Dutch, Spanish, German, Chinese and Brazilian Portuguese.

The assessment includes both a profile report and a development planning tool for individuals to use to help them identify and improve their weaker learning capabilities. The tool reports on 4 different learning styles identified by Honey and Mumford and helps individuals learn how to make the most of their strongest style and how they can develop their weaker styles.

Being aware of how you learn most effectively allows you to:

Match learning opportunities with how you learn best - this makes your learning easier, more effective and more enjoyable.
Become an all-round learner - this increases your versatility to learn from a wide variety of different experiences; some formal, some informal, some planned and some spontaneous.
Improve your learning skills and processes - increasing your awareness of how you learn opens up the whole process to self-scrutiny and improvement.

Which Learning Styles Questionnaire is best for you?

There are two versions of the LSQ, the 80-item which is the original questionnaire and 40-Item which was developed in 2000. Both are available online via the GFB assessment platform.

Benefits of use

Determines preferred learning style of individuals and teams

Helps employees to realise how they prefer to learn

Helps to improve self-awareness

Self-directed learning- saves time and reduces costs

Reporting

The LSQ provides a report including scores and a development planning section. Click here to view a sample LSQ report.

Find out more

80 Item	40 Item
More likely to appeal to traditionalists who want to use the original Honey & Mumford questionnaire	Helps people stay focused - there are fewer suggestions for action to choose between, and the wording is concise
Better for a longer session where there is time to explore learning styles and the suggestions for action in more depth	Useful if time is at a premium - the questionnaire takes less time to complete and score
Ideal for people who want a more comprehensive questionnaire (i.e. 20 items per style instead of 10)	Ideal as an initial introduction for people who have not previously given much consideration to how they learn
Takes approx 20 minutes to complete	Takes approx 10 minutes to complete

Learning Style	Type of Learner	Learning Preference
Pragmatists	Show me	Likes an expert to demonstrate
Activists	Hands on	Trial and error
Reflectors	Tell me	Briefed before proceeding
Theorists	Convince me	Clarity - Does this make sense?