IŞILDAR, Pınar Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi - Reha Midilli Foça Turizm Fakültesi - Gastronomi ve Mutfak Sanatları Bölümü, Turkey , AKTAŞ, Erdem Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi - Reha Midilli Foça Turizm Fakültesi - Turizm İşletmeciliği Bölümü, Turkey , KURGUN, Osman Avşar Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi - Reha Midilli Foça Turizm Fakültesi - Turizm İşletmeciliği Bölümü, Turkey

DETERMINING OF THE LEARNING STYLE OF TOURISM STUDENTS ACCORDING TO VARK LEARNING MODEL: COMPARISON OF BACHELOR AND ASSOCIATE DEGREES

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Abstract Learning Styles are seen as one of the important factors that influence learning and the determining learning style has been the subject o f various studies about increasing of both students’ performance in school and in work and instructors’ motivations. The aim of in this study is to determine dominate learning styles of tourism and hospitality students who are attending Dokuz Eylül University vocational high school and faculty, and to reveal differences if there has been among these schools. VARK (visual, aural, read/write, kinesthetic) Learning Style Model was used to determine students’ learning styles (N:206). Quantitative measures on variables calculated and discussed. Descriptive statistics, independent sample t-tests and analysis of variance (ANOVAs) were performed by using SPSS 22 package program. Results of the study show that although both two schools students prefer predominately kinesthetic learning style that represent to learning by doing, there is significant difference among class level in two schools.

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Learning , Learning Styles , VARK Learning Style Model.

dokuz eylul university the journal of graduate school of social sciences

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