Modeling of Pre-service Pre-School Teachers’ Learning Styles based on Mathematical Algorithm

The aim of the study is to model the learning styles of pre-service preschool teachers by using a mathematical algorithm method. The research was conducted with 159 pre-service preschool teachers from a public university in Ankara in 2015-2016 academic year. The Index of Learning Styles (LSI) developed by Felder and Soloman (1994) was used as the data collection tool in the research. According to the results of the research, pre-service teachers were found to prefer the active, sensing and visual learning styles under the control of the right hemisphere more intensively, they were found to use the sequential (analytic) learning style under the control of the left hemisphere more intensively compared to the global learning style. In addition, as a result of the model developed, the powers of learning style with a greater deviation were calculated to have loss by 12% at reflective (re) / active (ac) and by 16% verbal (ve) / visual (vi) sub dimensions.