The Learning Styles Inventory (LSI) and Instrument Bias.

This study investigated The Learning Styles Inventory (LSI) and instrument bias. A comparison of results based upon the LSI and a modified Likert-scale version of the LSI suggests that it is highly likely that the LSI contains significant instrument bias. Eliminating this bias and the development of other related instruments are encouraged as worthwhile future work in this area. The present study is a logical extension of the Freedman and Stumpf study. This study will investigate the relationship between the LSI's ability to generate two bi-polar learning dimensions through instrument bias. The issue of instrument bias is important since such a bias can artificially support the validity of empirical test instruments (Lamb, 1970). Given the increasing use of the LSI as a research tool the timeliness and worth of such an investigation seems obvious.