What is a Learning Style?

Learning Skills are about "learning how to learn" and improving student effectiveness and efficiency at studying and completing tests and assignments.

Your "learning style" means your best way of taking in and processing information.

The 3 basic styles are:

When you know your style, you can learn more effective ways of studying!

Discover Your Learning Style

If you would like to discover your learning style and receive some study tips related to that learning style, contact the Learning Skills Strategist!

You can also visit the Index of Learning Styles.

Learning Styles Tips

Try the Inventory of Multiple Intelligences

Psychologist Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences suggests that there are many different kinds of intelligence. In order to capture the full range of abilities and talents that people possess, Gardner suggests that people do not have just an intellectual capacity, but have many different intelligences including musical, interpersonal, spatial-visual and linguistic intelligences. They can have a range of abilities. You can learn more about your strengths by taking the Assessment: Find Your Strengths quiz.