FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

1. What are the benefits of using the Learning Orientation Questionnaire (LOQ)?
The LOQ can help organizations match qualified learners with the right programs and solutions to improve academic achievement or productivity. It can help managers, educators, trainers, or other professionals plan, design, and develop solutions to enhance ROI, improve innovation, talent, globalization, leadership, and capability development, performance improvement programs, and resource use. It can also help mentors in building more effective teams in the achievement of common goals--a well-matched team achieves more than the sum of its parts.

The Role of Learning in Company Growth
"Organizations struggle to grow in todays difficult economic environment. Approximately 60 percent of CEOs believe the major barriers to change are limited internal skills, capabilities and leadership to manage to and respond to these economic challenges. As a result, 75 percent of senior executives believe that employee education will become a critical success factor to realizing the growth agenda." -- Learning How to GrowAligning, Managing and Measuring Learning to Enable Growth by IBM Global Business Services.

The LOQ helps our clients remove the barriers to learning. Helping learners self-assess and understand and improve learning skills, helps our clients avoid costly mistakes. Well-informed learners make better choices for their individual needs. Research shows that the best learning occurs when programs are appropriately matched to student and teaching needs. Effective education, leadership, and team building practices show that assessment is an effective way to predict performance and prepare learners and teams for more successful achievement and performance.

2. What is the difference between the LOQ and other learning assessments?
The LOQ assesses the degree to which we like to learn and then willingly use our emotions and abilities to develop and commit strategic effort to set and achieve goals to learn and perform successfully. In contrast to other instruments designed to evaluate behavior or personality (e.g., those based upon Jungian Psychology), the LOQ especially considers affective and conative factors that considerably influence learning. The LOQ is better able to predict how individuals are willing, wanting, and ready to learn.

3. What are Learning Orientations?
Learning Orientations identify distinct characteristics or aggregate learning patterns for four distinct learning groups, including Transforming, Performing, Conforming, and Resistant learners. They describe how we want and intend to learn, interpret, and understand the world around us. Each person's unique way of developing their brain results in individual differences in learning. Learning orientations are based on the key psychological constructs that are influenced by such things as environment, experiences, genetics, and social interactions, and timing.

4. What are the research foundations for the Learning Orientation Questionnaire?
The theoretical basis for the Learning Orientation Questionnaire (LOQ) is the Learning Orientation Model (Martinez, 1996) which considers the interaction between key psychological factors, including affective (emotions), conative (will), social (community), and cognitive (thinking) factors. The neurosciences are helping us be more precise about understanding the factors that guide our individual ability to learn, perform, and use our brains differently.

5. What are the research foundations for the Learning Orientation Research?
The Learning Orientation Research reveals the dominant power of emotions and intentions on guiding and managing cognitive processes (no longer demoted to a secondary role). It is in understanding the structure and nature of the complex relationships between learning orientations and learning interactions find for each individual the treatment to which he or she can most easily learn, enabling us to design solutions, not to fit the average person, but to fit groups of students with particular learning patterns.

6. Is the LOQ a valid and reliable instrument?
The Learning Orientation Questionnaire has been developed over a ten-year period using standard psychometric protocols culminating in a variety of analyses. Reliabilty was assessed via test-retest and internal consistency methods and validity through content, construct, and predictive methods. Additional validation evidence appears in the LOQ Interpretation Manual.

7. What do I get when I purchase a Learning Orientation Questionnaire (LOQ) license?