What is it?
- KAMI is the Knowledge Access Modes Inventory
- DSI is the Decision Style Inventory
These are two tools that permit the identification of the epistemic styles (learning styles and decision making styles) of people.
They are the tools that permit us to adapt all of our interventions to the styles of the clients (learners and managers).
These inventories (these are edumetric type and not psychometric type. indicators) are the result of research done by Richard Rancourt Ph.D. at the University of Ottawa. They have been used and validated by thousands of subjects worldwide. Correlation studies with other similar inventories (including the MBTI) have confirmed their viability and their validity.
For more information: www.elearningstyles.com
Why?
To offer learning programs to our clients that are adapted to diverse learning styles thereby enhancing efficiency in the learning process.
Advantages
- The pertinence and the exactitude of the descriptors
- Autonomy of use
- Easy to understand by both clients and learners
- Reasonable cost
- Support of specialists when needed
How?
The KAMI and the DSI identify an individual’s epistemic style comprised of three modes that determine how we prefer to access knowledge or to make decisions. These modes are the Empirical mode, the Rational mode and the Noetic mode. These inventories can be used in learning sessions, in counselling or simply by individuals for better self-understanding. More specifically, the KAMI and the DSI permit us to:
- Adapt our interventions to the styles preferred by learners and clients
- Help people in organizations to easily overcome their natural resistance to change
- Improve the functioning of work groups or to contribute to solving conflicts by helping participants exploit in a creative way, the differences between them
- Create learning environments adapted to the learners
- Demystify learning for those who think they can’t learn
- Permit individuals to know themselves better, to favour openness to points of view and to ways of doing that are different from their own, thereby improving their ability to contribute effectively to the attainment of the goals of their team or their organization
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