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Additional FAQ by Cymeon.com

What's the difference in quality between the LSP and LSQ?

Answer : Everything

LSQ

• A checklist ~ does it have properties of a questionnaire?
• Designed "at half-time during a polo match" ~ can it really provide interesting information?
• Very little statistical evidence in manual ~ where is the evidence to support its use?
• Hangs on the shirt-tail of Kolb's theory from the 1980s (but actually does not even get that right). Is it simply out of date?
• Claims learning is totally experiential ~ does this really ring true?
• Little evidence of validity even after all this time ~ surely this is a problem?
• Must pay for manual
• Two point scale - does this make it hard for people to answer?
• The four scales are highly overlapping ~ Is it actually a two scale model?
• Scales have no meaning outside of the LSQ in the broader literaure
• Ask yourself this. Does the LSQ tell you anything that you don't know already?
• Subject to critical reviews in the academic literature
   
   
   LSP
   

• A fully designed psychometric test
• Designed by an international expert in learning, statistics and consultancy
• Manual full of supportive statistics presented for the open environment
• Based on modern learning theory
• Argues learning is biological and cognitive
• Predicts functional and dysfunctional learning
• Manual free
• Three point scale making it easy for people to respond
• Scales are distinct from each other but related in a predictable manner according to theory
• Scale names are widely understood and used outside of the LSP
• LSP tells you more than you know already
• Sensible pricing
• Available for use on intranets