Assessment
Maryknoll School uses many types of assessments to determine student readiness. This Learning Style Assessment gives both the parent and teacher an inside look into the psychological patterns of how your child learns. Thank you for completing this assessment prior to the start of school.
Click here for directions to administer your student’s assessment from your own computer. Maryknoll School will automatically receive a copy of the results. Please call your school counselor should you have any questions. The cost of the assessment is $5.00 and you may use your credit card when placing an order.
What does this Learning Styles assessments do for your child? Your child's learning style is based on a complex set of reactions to varied stimuli, feelings, and previously established behavioral patterns. These patterns tend to be repeated when your child concentrates on new or difficult material. The age appropriate learning-style assessment is designed to respond to selected characteristics of global learners by including the use of stories, fantasy, holistic writing, imagery, humor and pictures. Each assessment measures the patterns through which learning occurs in your child; it summarizes the environmental, emotional, sociological, physiological, and global/analytic processing preferences that your student has for learning.
What will this Learning Styles assessment do for you and the school?
- Identifies how your child prefers to learn.
- Provides a computerized graphical summary of your child's preferred learning style; called the Individual Learning Style Profile.
- Suggests a basis for redesigning the classroom environment to complement your students' needs for sound, quiet, bright or soft light, temperature, or seating design.
- Sequences the perceptual strengths through which your student should begin studying; shows how to reinforce new and difficult information for your child; shows how your child should do his or her homework.
- Indicates the methods through which your child is likely to excel.
- Extrapolates information whether your child is conforming or nonconforming and how to work with those who are nonconforming.
- Pinpoints the best time during the day for your child to be involved in required difficult subjects and thus permits you teacher to group students for instruction based on peak energy times.
- Itemizes the types of students for whom snacks while learning may accelerate the learning process.
- Suggests analytic or global approaches to learning new and difficult materials.
Please go to www.learningstyles.net for further information about educational research and other applicable information about this assessment.