PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES OF THE REVISED GRASHA-RIECHMANN STUDENT LEARNING STYLE SCALES

The 60-item version of Grasha and Riechmann's Student Learning Style S cales (six scales, 10 items per scale) was administered to a large sam ple of college freshmen on each of three campuses (total N = 870) in t he northeast. The Participative, Avoidant, and Collaborative scales sh owed acceptable internal consistency, but the Dependent, Independent, and Competitive scales did not. Factor analyses of items and scales pr oduced no solution approximating simple structure in any sample. Neith er items nor scales yielded a factor pattern resembling the theoretica l structure postulated by Grasha and Riechmann in any sample, although scale scores in two samples yielded a Participative-Avoidant factor t hat is one of the theoretical dimensions. Properties of the 60-item ve rsion are thus very similar to those reported for an earlier 90-item v ersion.