It is a 25-item online survey that identifies an individual's orientation to learn by looking at the dominant psychological factors that influence learning. The three factors are successful learning attributes and describe how learners generally want or intend to approach learning situationally. Finally, these attributes help identify issues that create gaps between potential learning and performance proficiency and actual learning and performance proficiency. The Learning Orientation Questionnaire identifies four learning orientations.
Learners situationally fall along the continuum of learning orientations.
Depending on the specific learning circumstances, a learner may cover a full range of one learning orientation or move downwards or upwards in response to negative or positive responses, conditions, resources, results, expectations, and experiences. Most learners will respond with some level of resistance in negative environments. Upward change into new learning orientations requires greater effort, more learner control, and stronger intentions, feelings, and beliefs about learning. Click on each Learning Orientation below for more information. More specifically, it should emulate the instructor's experienced, intuitive ability to recognize and respond to how individuals learn differently.