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Assignment: Please go to the four web sites listed below and complete the assessments of learning style and learning temperament. Be HONEST in completing these scales- you will not be graded on the results of these tests.

The Learning Styles Inventory: http://www.personal.psu.edu/bxb11/LSI/LSI.htmIndex of Learning Styles Questionnaire: http://www.engr.ncsu.edu/learningstyles/ilsweb.html
Vark Guide to Learning Styles: http://www.vark-learn.com/english/page.asp?p=questionnaire
The 4 Learning Temperaments: http://www.keirsey.com/sorter/register.aspx

*** Please note: Some sites may solicit you to purchase a detailed test report. You do NOT need to purchase anything to complete this assignment.***

Prepare an essay in which you:
• Identify and describe the various learning styles, and the types of learning strategies that are optimal for these styles. Consider your individual profile based upon the completed scales. How do your learning temperament results mesh with your identified learning style?
• Assess your test results with regard to learning style. Do you think that the learning style profiles attributed to you are an accurate assessment of your style? Why or why not?
• Assess your test results with regard to learning temperament. Do you think that the learning temperament profiles attributed to you are an accurate assessment of your personality? Why or why not?
• With regard to the learning strategies listed for your particular style, are they any strategies which you have tried in the past and found effective or ineffective? What three strategies listed did you think will be (or have been) most effective for you? Why?

Resources: You may use additional library, textbook, and Internet resources to complete this assignment. Please follow the University’s academic code of honesty and its policy on plagiarism- no direct copying, no lifting of ideas without proper credit, and no “cutting and pasting” from websites!

Length: All submissions must be five (5) typed double-spaced with reasonable margins.
Value: 20 points
Due Date: March 26, 2014

This learning goal encourages you to apply your critical thinking skills to everything around you. The status quo can always be questioned and you can test your own ideas to see if they hold up to scrutiny. The power of reasoning and the use of relevant evidence give you the confidence to question conventional wisdom before deciding whether to accept it or not.

You are developing your Confidence competency when you:

• Question the assumptions behind an idea or viewpoint and use alternative perspectives to challenge it
• Reach your own conclusions by combining information from diverse points of view and using logical reasoning
• Explain and defend your reasoning for a proposed solution to a problem
• Combine skills and knowledge from mathematics, science and the liberal arts as needed to develop new insights into real-world problems

Be sure to save an electronic copy of this assignment for submission to your Hallmarks portfolio!