SLS Study Skills: Your Learning & Self Assessments

Your Learning and Self Assessment

Being a successful student means becoming aware of how you learn and study. Complete these assessments and find areas of strength and weakness and reflect on your learning preferences to help you study smarter, not harder.

Self Assessment Surveys

Lifelong Learning

Resources

Barsch Learning Style Inventory
Are there ways you more naturally prefer to study? The Barsch Learning Style Inventory has you think about your dominant preferred way of studying - visual, auditory, tactile, kinesthetic. Take the inventory and read the suggestions on ways you can harness and make best use of your preferred style. (Jeffery Barsch, U of Central Florida).
Online VAK (Visual Auditory Kinesthetic) Self Assessment
Another VAK assessment developed by the Education Planner .org
Which Study Habits Can You Improve Self Assessment
Another self assessment that will give you an opportunity to reflect on your studying and ideas for making improvements in your study skills. (Education Planner .org)

Your Learning & Self Assessments

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Take this online test (Edutopia) to see what your strengths are within the "Eight Types of Multiple Intelligences" (model by Dr. Howard Gardner). We all have intelligences, be it interpersonal (working with others), musical, logical or naturalistic. What are your strengths? Watch this 4 min video for an overview of this theory.

The Power of Belief

The Power of Belief TED Talk
Do you believe that your intelligence and skills are innate, that we have a certain level of skills and intelligence that is really unchangeable? Or, do you believe with effort you are able to increase your intelligence and skills? This video explores what it means to have a "fixed" or "growth" mindset --- what are the messages you are giving yourself?