Personality Tests
by Kate Loeman

Encourage students to consider their Learning styles
In order to begin accommodating student needs, many instructors prompt their students to consider their individual learning styles early in the semester. There is an abundance of online resources that promote this kind of reflection. The terminology varies from site to site, but the idea is the same: they all argue that individual learners have learning needs based on their unique personalities and that recognition of these individual learning styles can help the instructor and the student to design an approach suitable to the student's needs. Many educators use a personality type indicator test (such as the Myers-Briggs model) to help students diagnose their learning style through their personality.

Links to Help You Recognize and Understand Your Personal Learning Style

• VARK: A Guide to Learning Styles
• The Myers-Briggs Typology Indicator Test
• Personality Pathways; "So what do all those cryptic MBTI code letters mean?"
• Overview of David Kolb's Experiential Learning
• Writing With Personality: How Our Myers-Briggs Personality Type Influences Our Writing

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Kate Loehman earned a BA in English from UT Austin and is currently seeking a Masters in Humanities, with a concentration in Literature Studies. She is particularly interested in 20th century American literature and history and Latin American literature.
She teaches Rhetoric 1302 at UT Dallas.