Pakistan Journal of Medical and Health Sciences , cilt.15, sa.2, ss.659-664, 2021 (ESCI)
The most important point about
education is to be conscious about education and learning activities. It is
extremely necessary for teachers and students to be conscious about the
educational process and the activities they perform individually in this
process. At this point, the most basic concept encountered is the learning
styles. For this reason, the aim of this research is to analyze the learning
styles used by the students of secondary official and private schools. This
research is a study of a descriptive survey model. The research group is located in Adana and
was selected according to an ‘appopriate sampling method. There were a total of
354 students mixed of the official and private secondary stage school. In this
research, Learning Styles Scale " developed by Gökdağ (2004) was used as a
data collection tool. Also Kolb’s Learning Styles III ‘with 12 semi-structured
questions developed by Gencel (2006) was used. According to the results of the
analysis; there is a siginificant difference to be found with the 5th and 8th
grade students from the official secondary stage school in part of visual
learning style, auditory learning style, concrete experience, abstract
conceptualisation, active experimentation, reflective obersavtion. According to
the school types there is a significant difference to be found of 5th grade
students in part of kinesetic learning style, concrete experience, abstract
conceptualisation, active experimentation and reflective observation. Whereas
for the 8th grade students there is just a significant difference to be found
for concrete experience.