To measure the degree to which each learner uses each of the patterns, these individuals have administered the Learning Connections Inventory (LCI), a 28 item self-report instrument. It is the use of the LCI which has provided a learner-specific focal point for teachers to talk to students about their learning. The written responses found in Part II of the LCI give “voice,” a place to begin dialogue between learner and teacher. This is the place where students and teachers have been able to establish mutual understanding and respect–to hear their joint or individual concerns and struggles–to separate them from issues of personality and misperceptions of lack of motivation to learn. Here is a place to start within a comfort zone of the learner and to move into more challenging assignments with a new confidence and awareness of how to attack the challenges of learning in a manner which creates Awareness, Insight, Understanding, and Change. CLICK HERE TO TAKE THE LCI
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