The Effect of Learning Styles on Problem Solving Ability among High School Students

Abstract

This research characterized the preferred learning styles of a sample of high school students, and also investigated which preferred learning style had better problem solving ability. In order to evaluate learning style preferences Kolb‟s learning style inventory was administered and to assess the problem solving ability L.N. Dubey‟s Problem= solving ability test adapted by the investigator was used. The learning style characteristics examined include, accommodator, assimilator, converger and diverger. The sample of the study consisted of (598) high schools students of grade 10th. The findings of the study revealed that the most preferred learning style is Assimilator followed by Accommodator, Diverger and Converger. The results of analysis of variance showed that learning styles affects the problem solving ability of students and the post hock test depicted that assimilator learning styles had better problem solving ability than the other learning styles.

 

Keywords: Learning styles, Problem solving ability, High school students.