Learning Styles

Updated on March 11, 2017

These websites provide free assessments of and learning strategies for your child’s or student’s learning style. A learning style is the way a student can most easily understand and recall their lesson material. Learning styles are not limited to, but usually include:

  • Visual – prefer to see or read information
  • Verbal/Audio – prefer to hear or read aloud information
  • Tactile/Sensory – prefer to interact with information through touch, building, drawing, writing

Students can use specific strategies compatible with their preferred learning style to best remember and process what they’re learning.

Ageless Learner Assessments

Ageless Learner has several assessments: learning styles, motivation styles, direction style, engagement style and more. These assessments are best suited to high school students and adults. Conner also includes excerpts from her books that explain the background to learning styles.…

VARK: A Guide to Learning Styles

VARK stands for Visual, Aural, Read/Write, Kinesthetic. The site’s VARK Questionnaire for Younger People is a 16-question interactive inventory of learning styles, best suited to middle and high school students. Unlike other questionnaires, you select all of the answers that…

Learning Styles Quiz

Education Planner offers a 20-question interactive learning styles quiz tailored to middle and high students. Following the quiz, the student gets a description of his or her learning style in terms of percentage for visual, audio and tactile learner styles.…