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Learning Styles—What Do They Measure?

School of Management, Queensland University of Technology

Briony Thompson

Division of Health and Behavioral Sciences at Griffith University

T he employees of an organisation provide a creative and flexible resource that can be harnessed to meet the challenges of the coming decade. This opportunity, however, assumes that individual employees are willing and able to learn. Learning style instruments have been developed to assist in the design of more efficient learning experiences. This article examines the validity of the Learning Style Questionnaire based on a factor analysis of 395 respondents. This analysis indicated little factorial validity of the instrument and also raised the question of the usefulness of the concept of learning styles. The factors are as readily interpreted as personality factors. However, this is only an initial study and further investigations need to be carried out.

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