The Effect of Learning Styles of Students to Entrepreneurial Skills: An Experimental Study that Station Method is Used

Abstract

In the research the effect of learning styles that secondary school students have on entrepreneurship in terms of creativity, innovation, risk, critical thinking, need for achievement and interpersonal relationships was studied by using learning stations. Explanatory mixed model of mixed methods, which both quantitative and qualitative data used together, is preferred in order to obtain detailed data related with entrepreneurial skill according to learning styles. As a study group 18 students that contains 2 male, 16 female students who were being educated at 6th grade in Seymenler Middle School in Altındağ, Ankara within the 2014-2015 education term is chosen.

In this study, the learning styles inventory that performed by Gokdağ (2004), is determined according to characteristics of the study group and the reliability and validity of the control list that prepared to determine the entrepreneurial skill is provided. Students dispersed into station groups basing on the data acquired from learning styles inventory. Data analysis is made using SPSS 16 package program. To analyze the data, Mann Whitney U test and Kruskall Wallis H test is used which can be applied to nonparametric groups. According to results acquired in study, it has been determined that, the kinesthetic student group is more effective in entrepreneurial skills and followed by auditory and visual student group respectively.