Assessment - Personal Style Inventory
The Personal Style Inventory, developed by Dr. R. Craig Hogan and Dr. David W. Champagne, is a variation of The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator that describes personality types. The Personal Style Inventory provides a means of characterizing one's preferred learning style with respect to four dimensions. Each dimension is present to some degree in all learners: introversion-extroversion, intuition-sensing, thinking-feeling, and perceiving-judging. Additionally, the inventory is designed to determine if an individual demonstrates a balance among the four dimensions or if he/she has slight, definite, or considerable strengths and weaknesses in the dimensions.
Individual strengths and weaknesses can profoundly impact one's academic success in certain tasks. It is therefore important to identify strengths and weaknesses and to develop a strategy repertoire to capitalize on strengths and to compensate for weaknesses. The inventory also has implications for academic major and career choices.
An abbreviated version of the Personal Style Inventory is included (Jewler and Gardner, 1993, p. 51-56). The questionnaire is followed by an evaluation of the results.