Honey & Mumford Learning Style Questionnaire

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Honey & Mumford – Learning Style Questionnaire

By Lyndsay Swinton

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Honey and Mumford (Peter and Alan) are best known for their learning style questionnaire. This self-administered questionnaire determines your preferred learning style.

Knowing your learning style can accelerate your learning as you undertake activities that best fit your preferred style.

Knowing your learning style can also help avoid repeating mistakes by undertaking activities that strengthen other styles For example, if you tend to “jump in at the deep end”, consider spending time reflecting on experiences before taking action.

Activitists (Do)

Immerse themselves fully in new experiences
Enjoy here and now
Open minded, enthusiastic, flexible
Act first, consider consequences later
Seek to centre activity around themselves

Reflectors (Review)

Stand back and observe
Cautious, take a back seat
Collect and analyze data about experience and events, slow to reach conclusions
Use information from past, present and immediate observations to maintain a big picture perspective.

Theorists (Conclude)

Think through problems in a logical manner, value rationality and objectivity
Assimilate disparate facts into coherent theories
Disciplined, aiming to fit things into rational order
Keen on basic assumptions, principles, theories, models and systems thinking

Pragmatists (Plan)

Keen to put ideas, theories and techniques into practice
Search new ideas and experiment
Act quickly and confidently on ideas, gets straight to the point
Are impatient with endless discussion

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By Lyndsay Swinton
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