A Psychometric Analysis of Kolb’s Learning Styles Inventory

Abstract

Kolb’s Learning Styles Inventory (LSI) [4,6] was developed to measure an individual’s use of four different learning abilities: Concrete Experience (CE), Reflective Observation (RU), Abstract Conceptualization (AC), and Active Experimentation (AE). These learning abilities are related to four stages (CE, RO, AC, AE) in a continuous cycle of learning. According to Kolb, these four abilities represent the extremes of two basic dimensions of learning. The first dimension is a concrete! abstract dimension (CE versus AC) while the second dimension is an active/reflective dimension (AE versus RU).