A Study on the Relationship between Lycee Types and Learning Styles
Abstract
This study has been conducted to investigate the learning styles of high school students
differentiated in terms of their school types in Rize. The scale -Marmara Learning Styles
Scale (MLSS)- which was used in this study developed in Turkey by Otrar M. (2006). And
it has been used to determine learning styles. And in addition to this scale, a questionnaire
developed by the researchers was also used to collect the demographic data. The study
was performed in the second semester of 2006-2007 educational year and carried out on
828 high school students (339 female and 489 male; ages ranged from 15 to 18) participating
from 11 different high schools in Rize. For processes on data analyzing, descriptive
techniques (f, %) were used. Furthermore, to find out the differences between the groups,
independent samples t test, one-way anova, and LSD analysis were carried out. In this
respect, some of the major findings of the research are presented in the following: (a) there
are significant differences between school types for the sub-scales of social interaction,
tactility, visuality, illumination, authority, auditory, persistence of MLSS. (b) there are
significant differences between gender groups for the sub-scale of visuality of MLSS.
(c) there are significant differences between school types for the sub-scales of visuality,
authority, auditory of MLSS.
Key words: Cognitive learning, learning styles, secondary school, guidance
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References
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Primary Language
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Journal Section
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Publication Date
October 28, 2013
Submission Date
October 28, 2013
Acceptance Date
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Published in Issue
Year 2007 Volume: 25 Number: 25