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Teaching Style Inventory:
http://www.indstate.edu/ctl/styles/tstyle.html
Contains 40 level-of-agreement questions on teaching attitudes and behaviors. The results classify by instructional style clusters. These clusters describe a teacher-centered approach in which information is presented and students receive knowledge; a teacher-centered approach that emphasizes modeling and demonstration; a student-centered approach where teachers design activities that allow students to apply course content; and a student-centered approach where teachers provide complex tasks that require student initiative, and often group work.
Personality Indicator for Educators:
http://www.enneagram-edge.com/thetpi.html
This assessment uses 9 scenarios with 3 possible outcomes to classify the temperament of educators as Attacher, Detacher, or Defender. Attacher educators readily engage with students as individuals. Personal connections are very important to them. Detacher educators are motivated by knowledge and want to develop thinking skills. Defender educators tend to develop the personality of a class as a group, and seek a high energy environment in the classroom with a lively exchanges of ideas.
http://www2.rgu.ac.uk/subj/eds/pgcert/selecting/select24.htm
Contains guidelines for matching educational objectives, instructional methods and teaching temperament.
http://www.metamath.com/lsweb/dvclearn.htm
Classifies students as visual, auditory, or tactile/ kinesthetic learners using 32 questions that assess study habits and learning situations.
http://www.vark-learn.com/questionnaire.htm
Students answer 14 questions with one of three scenarios. Learning preferences are classified as aural, visual, read/write or kinesthetic.
http://www2.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/ILSdir/ilsweb.html
Students answer 44 questions with one of two outcomes. Learning temperaments are classified as degree of active versus reflective, sensing versus intuitive, visual versus verbal, and sequential versus global.