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Assessments
We
developed the following assessments for various books and organizations.
From
Learn More Now (John Wiley & Sons, 2004). The book also contains assessments on
direction, engagement, observation, and collaboration styles.
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Learning Styles Assessment
This
easy to use inventory can help you assess your own approach to learning
and how you take in information. |
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Motivation Styles Assessment This straightforward
assessment can
help you determine what drives you to action and what's the reason
behind why you want to learn. |
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Direction Style Assessment This
short checklist can help you identify if you prefer to learn from
the big-picture or in a more detailed way.
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Engagement Style Assessment This
simple quiz can help you determine how you prefer to engage with
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From
Creating a Learning Culture: Strategy, Technology, and Practice
(Cambridge University Press, 2004):
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Learning Culture
Audit This self-audit describes the characteristics of
cultures that encourage learning and those that block learning. It can
help you assess how you are doing as a leader of a learning culture
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We
developed this assessment for the
Online University
Consortium.
Other Personal Self-Assessments
These
websites feature self-assessments developed by different people and with
different purposes. We link to them here because they might be able to
help you get to know yourself better and might offer you insight into
work, family, leadership style, relationships challenges, and even your
health.
These first few sites offer extensive collections of assessments.
About.com:
Kimeiko Hotta Dover does a great job linking to many
learning styles assessments as part of her Adult Education guide. In
her HR guide, Susan Heathfield also compiles a list of assessments, more
focused on
work-related issues.
Tickle offers a very
large selection of online tests that help you understand most any aspect
of your life. The tests are fast, fun, and always illuminating! Some of
our favorite tests include:
All the Tests
links you to a variety of tests that span topics including IQ, EQ,
health, personality, career, knowledge, language, relationship, MCSE,
SAT, GMAT, GRE, LSAT, and MCAT.
Barbarian's
Online Tests This site offers and extensive collection of online
intelligence, personality, and general aptitude tests.
Personality and I.Q.
Tests This site is so rich in personality tests, career
tests, and fun tests to take that I linked the site for your convenience
and enjoyment. Some of the tests are serious online profiles; others are
just for fun. Take a look.
These sites offer specific assessments, primarily for personal
development.
What is your temperament? Like the
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator,
the
Keirsey Temperament Sorter II and the
Paragon
Learning Style Inventory
are personality tests based on the work
of Carl Jung that assess introversion/ extroversion,
intuition/sensation, thinking/feeling, and judging/perceiving. A
terrific book that offers both the assessment and in depth analysis (and
help) with each MBTI style can be found in the book
Please Understand Me by David Keirsey. (You can take the original
MBTI online for a fee at
PersonalityDesk.) In addition, the
Five
Factor IPIP-NEO gives you one more
dimension.
What is your social style? David Merrill's
Social Styles Model is described at length in Merrill's book
Personal
Styles & Effective Performance and is most easily available through
Roger and Dorothy Bolton's book
People Styles at Work. Social styles differ from personality styles
because they mostly focus on differences between how people interact
with one another rather than how they are wired.
More on learning styles. Branton
Shearer's Multiple Intelligence Development Assessment Scales (MIDAS)
instrument, Keith
Rogers' Indicator of Multiple Intelligences (RIMI), the Tickle
Multiple Intelligence Test, and Colin Rose's
How are You Smart are adapted from Howard
Gardner's work on multiple intelligences. The
Index of Learning Styles (ILS) Questionnaire
from Richard Felder, Linda Silverman, and Barbara Soloman assesses
preferences in four dimensions (active/reflective, sensing/intuitive,
visual/verbal, and sequential/global).
The
Barsch Learning Style Inventory is another on-line test you can
print and use for personal purposes.
What's your Real Age? Take
The RealAge® Test to
find our the biological age of your body, based on how well you've
maintained it.
What's your life color?
Life
Color Lite is a short test to find out what color represents your
personality and what that color means to your life. Pamala Oslie has
also written a book on this called
Life Colors. Tickle offers asks
What's Your Signature Color?
What is your motivation?
iVilliage offers a
motivation test focused on creativity, power, and money.
How happy are you? The
Authentic
Happiness site offers an assortment of questionarres to help you improve how you view
the world.
What's your eating style?
The Integrative Eating Program an interactive self-test that will
give you your personal eating profile. Also, Tickle has a
Healthy Eater assessment.
How do you cope with trouble? Take a
Coping with Trouble assessment.
How well do you handle adversity? Take the
Optimism assessment.
How forgiving are you? This
Forgiveness assessment helps you gain an accurate sense of where you
are right now.
Is
spirituality empowering your life? Take this
Spirituality and Well-Being assessment.
Organizational Assessments
How is your organization's health? The
Organization Health Survey ranks your answers about your
organization against everyone else who has taken the survey in the past.
Find out how your organization ranks on issues such as trust, benefits,
management, leadership, communication, customer service and employee
involvement.
Do
the values you embrace fit the company you work for? Take the
Values Audit
For-fee Assessments
In
addition to self-assessments, various organizations offer services and
products to help you and your organization assess various factors of
personality, style, and environment. Here are a few of those. Various
fees apply.
About
Learning offers:
HRDQ offers:
Hay Group offers:
Peter Honey offers:
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