How to Use the Learning Styles Inventory Spreadsheets

Every Marion Local teacher has a folder in his/her P: drive titled "Learning Style Inventory". This folder contains a spreadsheet for each class that he/she teaches. The spreadsheets contain the results from the Learning Style Surveys taken last spring. Below are instructions on how to use the spreadsheet to help analyze the data. To view one of the spreadsheets, do the following:

Double click the following items: My Computer -- your P: drive -- Learning Styles folder -- any file in the folder. The Excel program will open with the data. It will look similar to the example at the right.

The 22 learning style scores are listed horizontally across the spreadsheet. To help interpret the meaning of each learning style, there is a pop-up comment box connected to the title of the learning styles (Note the little red triangle in the upper right corner of each title? That indicates there is a comment attached). For example, if you want to know a little bit more about the "Noise" learning style, just move your mouse across the title NOISE. See the example at the right. Each learning style can also be displayed in a bar graph format. At the bottom of each spreadsheet screen there are 23 tabs -- the first is labeled DATA and the rest are labeled the name of the learning style (NOISE -LIGHT -- TEMP -- etc.). The DATA tab is the spreadsheet that contains all the numbers and data. The other tabs show each particular learning style as a bar graph for the students listed in the class. Notice the example at the right.

To see the graph for the NOISE learning style, click on the NOISE tab. To see any learning style graph in ascending or descending order by the scores, do the following: 1. Select the DATA menu and then the SORT option. The window at the right will open up. 2. Open the SORT BY window and select the item you want to sort by. 3. Check whether you want the data sorted in ascending or descending order. 4. Be sure the HEADER ROW button at the bottom of the window is checked. 5. Click OK. 6. Click on the tab for the learning style and the data will be rearranged in ascending or descending order, whichever you selected. See the example below.

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