Learning Styles Adopted by M. Ed. Students

Abstract

The current study is on“Learning Styles Adopted by M.Ed. Students”. The study basically aimed to find out the learning styles, namely perceptual styles,introvert, extrovert and risk-taking used by the students. Besides, other aims were to find out the most dominant and least used styles among those categories, to find out the gender difference in the use of such styles and to provide some pedagogical implications. For the purpose, seventy M.Ed.students were selected from the Department of English Education through quota non-random sampling procedure. The questionnaire was used as a tool to collect the data from the primary source. The data were analyzed using simple statistical tools, namely frequency distribution,percentage and weighted mean.The findings drawn from the analysis and interpretation of the data showed that all the styles mentioned in the questionnaire were found to be used by the majority of the students with some variation in the degree of their use. Mostly,the extrovert learning styles were found to be the most dominant whereas the introvert learning styles were found to be the least used styles. Likewise, the gender did not seem to affect in the adoption of learning styles. The study is divided into four chapters. Chapter one includes introduction,general background, review of the related literature, significance of the study and definitions of the specific terms used in the study. Chapter two incorporates methodology with sources of data collection, limitations of the study and procedures of data analysis. Chapter three is the analysis and interpretation of the data. It includes the analysis of perceptual, introvert,extrovert and risk-taking styles. Chapter four presents the findings and recommendations. References and appendices appear at the end part of the study.