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Instructions for the Administration of the Dunn, Dunn, & Price Learning Styles Assessments 3rd - 12th Grade Administration The Learning Styles Inventory (LSI) can be a remarkably useful tool for teachers, administrators, parents, and learners. For the test to be really beneficial, time must be taken to prepare the learner for the assessment. The younger the test taker, the more critical the preparation process. A booklet(s) is enclosed to be shared with the students (3rd through 6th grades) before they test. THIS IS A CRITICAL STEP FOR ACCURATE ASSESSMENTS. You may make as many copies of the booklet as you like. Some schools that have administered the LSI have chosen to introduce the children to learning style concepts before the assessment. They spent time talking to students about how each of us need different factors to help us learn best and time reinforcing the notion that the assessment is given to make learning more appropriate. One school set up a demonstration classroom where the students could experience various components of learning styles such as low vs. high lighting, soft music vs. no noise, formal vs. informal study techniques and so on. Teachers can replicate many of these elements in their own classrooms so that students can make informal choices. Administration of the LSI is different from most other tests. The goal is to really find out what works for learners. It is not inappropriate for the test administrator to help students especially young ones, to understand specific questions. The test giver must simply be very careful not to indicate that one answer is preferable to another. It is perfectly acceptable to read the test to students of any age. Some young students have a great deal of difficulty maintaining concentrate throughout the whole survey. If you anticipate that this will be a problem for your population I do not think it is inappropriate to divide the test into sections to be administered on consecutive days. If you choose to do this, give the test at the same time each day. Adult Administration For an older test taker, (college student or adult), it is usually sufficient to explain the purpose of the inventory and that the test attempts to gauge what the learner needs if he or she is being introduced to NEW AND DIFFICULT information. As always, the participants must be convinced that the results of the survey matter and that it is in their best interest to provide accurate information. Oklahoma Institute for Learning Styles College of Education Northeastern State University Tahlequah, OK 74464 Phone: 918.456.5511 Ext. 3762 Send comments to: OKlearningstyles@gmail.com Copyright ©2002; 2006 by Oklahoma Institute for Learning Styles All Rights Reserved