Important Web Sites
The Think Tank at the National Zoo:
http://www.si.edu/organiza/museums/zoo/zooview/exhibits/thinktan/tthome.htm
The "Know Your Brain" page from National Institutes of Health:
http://www.ninds.nih.gov/HEALINFO/DISORDER/KYB/KYB.HTM
Formal Paper #2
Web Sites and Sources for Psycholeducational Tests
and Inventories
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Learning Preferences
- *Ken Keirsey's Character and Temperament (also known as the Myers-Briggs
Type Inventory)
- http://keirsey.com/
- Take the "The Keirsey Character Sorter"
- Another version of the same test, but it's more difficult to take
- http://www.ttuhsc.edu/success/lsti.htm
- Further description of the results
- http://typelogic.com/
- A thinking styles inventory (beware: the explanation has a lot of typos!)
- http://snow.utoronto.ca/cgi/learncgi/tsscale.cgi
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Cognitive Styles
- Kolb Learning Styles Inventory (we'll take this in class)
- A simplistic but useful test without much explanation
- http://www.howtolearn.com/personal.html
- *A better test-but you'll have to print it out to take it
- http://muskingum.edu/~cal/database/modality.html#Questionnaire
- A complex but interesting and useful site.
- http://www.sil.org:80/lingualinks/library/LLearning/CJO652/index.htm
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Multiple and Traditional Intelligences
- 7 Kinds of Smart, pages 18 to 36. Chart your results
- Good description of the 7 intelligences
- http://education.canberra.edu.au/postgrad/ss/students/frances/FRANCES.HTM
- Nelson-Denny Reading Test (we'll take this one in class)
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Emotional Intelligence Tests
- *Take at least one of the following. All of these are based on Daniel
Goleman's work
- http://www.queendom.com/emotionaliq.html
- http://www.utne.com/cgi-bin/eq
- http://homearts.com/depts/relat/01eqqab5.htm
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Career Tests
- The Career Key groups jobs into six personality types, also known as
the Holland types.
- http://www.ncsu.edu/careerkey/
- A simpler version of the above test
- http://www.missouri.edu/~cppcwww/holland.shtml
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- *These tests are required and need to be completed by Friday, February
19
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Grammar and Writing Help
A nicely done and very useful site to help with grammar and prose issues.
http://webster.commnet.edu/HP/pages/darling/original.htm
A list of grammar-related web sites, also helpful and friendly
http://199.233.193.1/cybereng/32.html
On-line citation guide, including APA. Go there for advice on citing
internet sources.
http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/Documents.center/cite.html
Merriam-Webster, the dictionary people, have a great web site. You can
look up words and use their thesaurus.
http://www.m-w.com/
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