The Kolb Learning-Style Inventory©
1993 David A. Kolb
The Kolb Learning-Style Inventory (LSI) assesses the way you learn, and how you deal with ideas and day-to-day situations. We all learn in different ways. This inventory can serve as a stimulus for you to interpret and reflect on the ways you prefer to learn in specific settings.
The Kolb Learning-Style Inventory is an assessment tool, developed by David A. Kolb, Ph.D. The tool identifies preferred learning styles, and explores how the different styles influence:
- Making career choices
- Problem-solving
- Working in teams
- Goal-setting
- Resolving conflict
- Managing others
- Dealing with new situations
- Communicating at work
- Communicating at home
The Four Learning Styles identified in this assessment are:
- Diverging: combines preferences for experiencing and reflecting
- Assimilating: combines preferences for reflecting and thinking
- Converging: combines preferences for thinking and doing
- Accommodating: combines preferences for doing and experiencing
The Four Stages of the Learning Cycle
These styles provide a way to understand individual people's different learning styles, and also help to explain a cycle of experiential learning that applies to us all. This cycle of experiential learning is typically expressed in four-stages
- Concrete Experience
- Reflective Observation
- Abstract Conceptualization
- Active Experimentation
