How did the ILS originate, and what is its theoretical basis?
The Index of Learning Styles was created in 1991 by Richard M. Felder, a chemical engineering professor at North Carolina State University, and Barbara A. Soloman, then the coordinator of advising for the N.C. State First-Year College. The four learning style dimensions of the instrument were adapted from a model developed in 1987 by Dr. Felder and Dr. Linda K. Silverman, an educational psychologist then at the University of Denver. The first version of the instrument was administered to several hundred students and the data were subjected to a factor analysis. Items that did not load heavily on one and only one item were replaced with new items to obtain the current 44-item version of the instrument. The ILS was installed on the World Wide Web in 1996. It gets close to a million hits per year and has been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, and several other languages. Click here to view “Learning and Teaching Styles in Engineering Education,” the 1988 article that d
The Index of Learning Styles was created in 1991 by Richard M. Felder, a chemical engineering professor at North Carolina State University, and Barbara A. Soloman, then the coordinator of advising for the N.C. State First-Year College. The four learning style dimensions of the instrument were adapted from a model developed in 1987 by Dr. Felder and Linda K. Silverman, an educational psychologist then at the University of Denver. The first version of the instrument (which had 28 items) was administered to several hundred students and the data were subjected to a factor analysis. Items that did not load heavily on one and only one item were replaced with new items to obtain the current 44-item version of the instrument. The ILS was installed on the World Wide Web in 1996. It gets over 100,000 hits per year and has been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, and several otherlanguages. Click here to view “Learning and Teaching Styles in Engineering Education,” the 1988 arti
