Editing Learning styles (section)

===Learning Style Inventory===
The Learning Style Inventory (LSI) is connected with [[David A. Kolb]]'s model and is used to determine a student's learning style.<ref name="SmithKolb1986"/> Previous versions of the LSI have been criticized for problems with validity, reliability, and other issues.<ref name="Manolis">{{cite journal |last1=Manolis |first1=Chris |last2=Burns |first2=David J. |last3=Assudani |first3=Rashmi |last4=Chinta |first4=Ravi |date=February 2013 |title=Assessing experiential learning styles: a methodological reconstruction and validation of the Kolb Learning Style Inventory |url=http://research.phoenix.edu/sites/default/files/publication-files/2012-Manolis%20et%20al(2012).pdf |journal=[[Learning and Individual Differences]] |volume=23 |pages=44–52 |doi=10.1016/j.lindif.2012.10.009}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Koob |first1=Jeffrey J. |last2=Funk |first2=Joanie |date=March 2002 |title=Kolb's learning style inventory: issues of reliability and validity |journal=[[Research on Social Work Practice]] |volume=12 |issue=2 |pages=293–308 |doi=10.1177/104973150201200206 |s2cid=17548610 |url=http://www.bu.edu/ssw/files/2010/10/Kolbs-Learning-Style-Inventory-Issues-of-Reliability-and-Validity1.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Metallidou |first1=Panayiota |last2=Platsidou |first2=Maria |date=2008 |title=Kolb's Learning Style Inventory-1985: validity issues and relations with metacognitive knowledge about problem-solving strategies |journal=[[Learning and Individual Differences]] |volume=18 |issue=1 |pages=114–119 |doi=10.1016/j.lindif.2007.11.001 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/229383282}}</ref> Version 4 of the Learning Style Inventory replaces the four learning styles of previous versions with nine new learning styles: initiating, experiencing, imagining, reflecting, analyzing, thinking, deciding, acting, and balancing.<ref name="LSI4">{{cite web |title=Kolb learning style inventory (KLSI), version 4 online: description |url=http://www.haygroup.com/leadershipandtalentondemand/ourproducts/item_details.aspx?itemid=118&type=2&t=2 |website=haygroup.com |access-date=9 August 2015}}</ref> The LSI is intended to help employees or students "understand how their learning style impacts upon problem solving, teamwork, handling conflict, communication and career choice; develop more learning flexibility; find out why teams work well—or badly—together; strengthen their overall learning."<ref name="LSI4"/>

A completely different Learning Styles Inventory is associated with a binary division of learning styles, developed by Felder and Silverman.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Felder |first1=Richard M. |last2=Silverman |first2=Linda K. |date=January 1988 |title=Learning and teaching styles in engineering education |journal=Engineering Education |volume=78 |issue=7 |pages=674–81 |url=http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/Papers/LS-1988.pdf}}</ref> Their model interprets learning styles as a balance between pairs of extremes, and the four scores provided by a questionnaire describes these balances.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.engr.ncsu.edu/learningstyles/ilsweb.html |title=Index of learning styles questionnaire |first1=Barbara A. |last1=Soloman |first2=Richard M. |last2=Felder |publisher=[[North Carolina State University]] |access-date=1 November 2012}}</ref> Like the LSI mentioned above, this inventory provides overviews and synopses for teachers.