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The Cognitive Profile Inventory: Dead Tree Version or interactive version

It. is recommended that you take the inventory prior to reading about what it means.

The Bipolar Descriptors: Sensor / iNtuitive | Thinker / Feeler

The Quadrants: | SF | ST | NF | NT |

Study Techniques by quadrant: | SF study | ST study | NF study | NT study |

Teaching Strategies by quadrant: | SF teaching | ST teaching | NF teaching | NT teaching

Sensor Thinker: The ST learner

The ST learner works from details to the concept, using concretes, models, and "manipulatives" wheneverpossible. He needs to be able to pick things up, turn them around and inside out. He needs the material to beorganized, and step by step. The ST typically prefers to memorize and repeat what has been learned, andmay not be comfortable when presented with new types of tasks without explicit directions.

The sensor thinker (ST) is closest to Dunn and Dunn's analytical learner, and works in an organized fashion,methodically and stepwise.

The ST student learns best alone, by repetitious drill and practice, and has a profound need for feedback onhis work. Answers are either right or wrong, and the ST student may be easily frustrated by discoverylearning where there is no clearly defined path to the correct result. ST's memorize well, and do best in recalltests. The ST student is advised to study alone, in a well lit structured area, desk and chair, with nodistractions, and to do repeated example problems and exercises.

Complex concepts should be broken into steps or small pieces, and each piece mastered before going on tothe next. Large quantities of information may be tabulated on flash cards, and some stepwise progressiondevised to facilitate learning. The ST is the classic student for which American schools have been structuredfor most of this century, and the population from which Dunn emphasizes most of our teachers have come,perhaps because they enjoyed success in school under the structure imposed.

Concepts which are presented in a manner that is not conducive to recall can be restructured by the STstudent. Complex concepts should be broken into steps or small pieces, and each piece mastered beforegoing on to the next. Large quantities of information may be tabulated on flash cards, and some stepwiseprogression devised to facilitate learning.

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