Assessing relevant characteristics of learners is very important for instructional designers. In the past instructions were created with typical learners taken into consideration, but today, along with the rise in the sensitivity level to atypical learner needs, differentiation in this field is absolutely necessary. The fact that up to 16 percent of US adults experience certain problems with learning also adds to this necessity.
First of all, to assess the learner characteristics, we need to understand what characteristics in fact have to be assessed. There are three groups of characteristics distinguished by the scientists: decision-related, situation-related and learner-related. The ...