Learning Style an Approach for Academic Guidance of High School Students

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The purpose of this study was investigating high school students’ learning styles in order to develop an instrument for academic guidance. The population of this study consisted of male students in three fields of science, mathematics, and humanities in high schools of Hamedan. The sample, consisted of 170 male students in grades 2 and 3 of high school in the fields of science, mathematics, and humanities. Students were selected through multistage cluster sampling method. Kolb’s Learning Styles Inventory was employed to measure the students’ learning styles. The results of the study showed that most of the students in mathematics and science had a converging and assimilating learning style, and most of the humanities students had a diverging and accommodating learning style. Thus, by awareness of students’ learning styles, we can guide them to the fields that best fit their learning styles in high school or college.

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volume 2  issue 30

pages  121- 137

publication date 2015-04

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