No two students will learn in the exact same way. As a learning manager we must be able to adapt our teachings to various styles and intelligences. The above pictures are examples of ways to test multiple intelligences and learning styles which can be completed in a few short minutes to provide you with a diagram of individual learning styles and intelligences which you can refer to when deciding aspects of your planning for example if half of the class are auditory (verbal) learners and half are visual (written) it would be a good idea to have both aspects in your teaching practice.
On the other hand this is simply an online test and as hard as we try not all learners will take it seriously and answer randomly (or if they're cheeky in a pattern) so you will have to also rely on your personal experience with your students to understand what why they learn best and what areas they excel in.
In short these are handy tools and can be used say at the start of the year to give you a basic idea but they can not be all that you rely on to profile your students you must also make the effort to learn about them yourself not through some generic test.
That is a good point about not just relying on tests to tell you what type of learner your students are. These Learning styles test can be the starting point to see how students learn although when you are teaching you begin to understand how the different students learn best. Ensuring student’s success is imperative, therefore as teachers we need to understand that the classroom is filled with diverse learners and that their learning needs are catered for.
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