A Probe Into The Learning Style Of The School-Going Adolescents

Abstract

Learning Styles are the behavioural pattern, attitudes, and other factors that support learning for students in a particular setting and that enable them to collect, interpret, organize, and retain information in different ways.The purpose of the study was to know the present state ofLearning Styles of the school-going adolescents; and also,their gender wise (male and female) comparison. The study was designed to carried out through the descriptive survey method by administeringLearning Style Inventory (LSI)on a random sample of530 School-going adolescents (male-196 and female- 334) betweenthe age group of 14 to 18 yearsofGovt-sponsored secondary schools in Paschim Medinipur district of West Bengal. The results indicated that the school-going adolescents had a strongLearning Style, with consistently high scores on various dimensions such as Visual,Auditory,Tactileand Learning Style (in totality).Also, from theComparative Analysisthe results reflected that the female school-going adolescents have higher Visual Learning Style than their male counterpart.But no significant gender difference wasobserved otherwise.