| A Study on the Needs of General Education Considered University Students Learning Styles |
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Kyong-Ae Yu |
| 대학생의 학습양식 차이를 고려한 교양교육의 필요성 연구 |
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Employing Felder & Silverman s (1988) Index of Learning Style (ILS), this study investigates the learning styles of 538 Korean undergraduates and discusses their preferences and gender differences in their learning styles based on the questions of four categories of ILS: perception, input, processing, and understanding. The results show that significant differences in learning styles between genders were statistically identified: male students prefer intuitive, visual, active and global learning styles more than female students, while female students prefer sensing, verbal, reflective and sequential styles more than male students. Also, the results from this study and the previous studies employing ILS show that the most dominant learning styles of Korean undergraduates are sensing and visual learning styles while reflective/active and global/sequential learning styles are evenly preferred. This result is different from Felder & Brent s (2005) research which shows that American engineering students prefer active and sequential learning styles to reflective and global ones. Considering that engineering students are mainly males, when they are compared with Korean male students, Korean male students prefer intuitive and global styles more than American engineering students. These different results indicate that students’ preferences of learning styles are culturally different. The pedagogical implications of this study are that gender differences in learning styles should be considered in general education and that instructors should try to find teaching methods satisfying diverse learning styles and employ them in general education. |
| Key Words:
General Education, learning styles, ILS, gender differences |
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