Purpose: To assess students’ awareness about and use of learning and study strategies.
Source: http://www.hhpublishing.com/_assessments/lassi/
Short description: The LASSI is a 10-scale, 60-item assessment of students’ awareness about and use of learning and study strategies related to skill, will and self-regulation components of strategic learning. The focus is on both covert and overt thoughts, behaviors, attitudes and beliefs that relate to successful learning and that can be altered through educational interventions.
Sample questions:
- Worrying about doing poorly interferes with my concentration on tests (Anxiety scale)
- I feel confused and undecided as to what my educational goals should be (Attitude scale)
- I find that during lectures I think of other things and don’t really listen to what is being said (Concentration scale)
Paid or free: Paid ($20)
Reliability/validity measures: 3rd edition has 60 items that maintain the strong psychometrics (valid and reliable) of the original 80.
Setting: Independent or educational
Stakeholder(s):
- Colleges
- Individual students
- Instructors
- Medical institutions
- Sports management
Type of measurement:
- Diary
- Self-assessment
- Peer-assessment
- Observation
- Eye-tracking
- Physiciological or neurological data
- Survey
- Interview
- Focus-group
- Life-logging
- Social networking
- Social network analysis
- Learning analytics
- Stimulated recall
- Ethnography
Possible uses:
- Improve all student’s learning and study strategies
- Help identify areas in which students could benefit most from educational interventions
- Counseling tool for college orientation programs, developmental education programs, learning assistance programs, and learning centers
- A pre-post achievement measure
- Assess the degree of success of intervention programs or courses.
Ease of implementation: Easy to implement. 60 items, est. 20 min.
Advantages:
- There are many different areas that this inventory looks at (skill, self-will, and self-regulation of strategic learning) which provides a lot of information about 10 different individual scales (ex. anxiety, concentration, information processing).
- Descriptive and prescriptive, in that it provides individual feedback based on an individual’s scores.
Drawbacks:
- Self-report
- Because there are 10 different subscales, the LASSI may not provide in-depth information about specific areas of interest
Studies this has been used in: A list of institutions that use LASSI can be found here: http://www.hhpublishing.com/_assessments/lassi/popup_users.html