Author/Authors :
ÇELİK, Diren , KUMRAL, Orhan Pamukkale Üniversitesi - Eğitim Fakültesi, Turkey
Abstract :
Individuals to acquire new knowledge, thinking styles and learning strategies they use to perform a learning task. The aim of this research is to determine of learning strategies and thinking styles and uncover the relationship between learning strategies and thinking styles of the students participating it in. The study was designed according to the relational model of the survey method. Research sample is selected at randomly from these 5 different types of high schools has 389 students from grade 11th classes. “Thinking Styles Inventory”, and “Learning Strategies Determining Scale”, data gathering instrument in this study. To analyze the data; number, percentage, mean, standard deviation, t-test, one-way ANOVA, Tukey HSD test, Kruskal-Wallis test and Pearson Product Moment analysis was performed. According to research findings; students of grade 11th as Type 1 conceptualized thinking styles prefered as legislative, hierarchical, justice and liberal thinking styles frequently. The strategy used by students in learning strategies and understanding the meaning of the intensive monitoring strategies, affective strategies, recurrence strategies and organizational strategies are determined to use less. Students of grade 11th think with their own style to reveal the relationship between learning strategies, while looking at the total correlations of all types of schools, thinking styles used by students are found to have a negative correlation between learning strategies.
