The relationship among learning styles of the secondary school students taking physical education courses their success and attitudes towards phsical education courses and demographic features

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The aim of this study was to determine the effects of learning styles of the
secondary school students (6th.,7th and, 8th grades) taking physical education
courses on their success and attitudes towards physical education courses.
One thousand four hundred and ninety eight students (717 girls, 781 boys)
with a total of 1498, from 12 secondary schools from Bolu in the 2005-2006
education- teaching year participated in this study.
In the study a “personal information inquiry” was applied that includes 8
questions (name of the school, class, gender, education level of mother and father,
grade point average, income level), in order to collect personal information. In
addition, to determine the learning styles of the students “Learning Styles Inventory”
developed by Kolb in 1984 and, to determine the attitudes towards physical
education courses “The Student Attitude Scale” developed by Demirhan ve Altay
(2001) were used.Students learning styles prefence were analyzed through frequency (f) and
percentages (%). Students taking physical education courses on their succes and
attitudes were analyzed using One-way ANOVA. Students learning styles prefence
with gender, class level, education level, mother and father grade point avarege,
family income level were compared byusing Chi-square Test.
According to the findings gained from the study; it was found that
1. 37,4% of the secondary school students attending to the study have diverger,
24% of them have assimilator, 19,8% converger and 18,8% accomodator
learning styles.
2. There was a difference between student’ learning styles and class levels,
gender, fathers’ education levels (p<0,05).
3. The attitudes of the students towards physical education courses changed
considerably depending on their learning styles. (p<0,05).
4. There was not a difference between student’ learning styles and their success,
mothers’ education level and income level (p<0,05).
İlknur Palas Aktaş
İlköğretim II. kademe öğrencilerinin öğrenme stillerinin okul başarıları, beden eğitimi dersine yönelik tutumları ve demografik özellikleriyle ilişkisi · 2007 · 214 sayfa.
Danışman: Yrd. Doç. Dr. Dilşad Ediş Mirzeoğlu
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