Instruments
Thirteen standard psychometric inventories — Big 5, HEXACO, Dark Triad, attachment, values, morals, cognition, empathy, locus of control, Enneagram, and three learning-style frameworks.
attachment
big5
cognition
dark triad
empathy
enneagram
hexaco
learning styles
40-item adaptation of Honey & Mumford's Learning Styles Questionnaire, derived from Kolb's experiential learning theory. Identifies four learning style preferences: Activist (learns by doing), Reflector (learns by observing), Theorist (learns by thinking), Pragmatist (learns by experimenting in real-world contexts). The original LSQ uses 80 items in agree/disagree form; this is a shortened Likert adaptation.
12-item Likert adaptation of Kolb's Experiential Learning Theory, measuring four learning modes that combine into the four Kolb learning styles. Concrete Experience + Reflective Observation = Diverging; Abstract Conceptualization + Reflective Observation = Assimilating; Abstract Conceptualization + Active Experimentation = Converging; Concrete Experience + Active Experimentation = Accommodating. As with VARK, the empirical evidence for matching instruction to learning style is weak.
16-item adaptation of Fleming's VARK framework, measuring four learning modality preferences: Visual (V), Aural (A), Read/Write (R), and Kinesthetic (K). Note: the underlying 'matching instruction to preferred style improves learning' hypothesis has been empirically rejected (Pashler et al., 2008). Included here to test whether LLMs self-identify with these modalities at all.