Effects of teaching 6th grade secondary school science lesson on students' attitudes, achievements and science process skills by using Dunn and Dunn learning styles model

In addition to being bora with some abilities, throughout their lives individuals learn lots of informations according to their environments and they develop their abilities. Individual's having thinking ability helps to learn information that exists and get new informations. Obtaining and learning informations is made at schools. Besides, it can become some places except of schools. But learning these informations thanks to schools and education-instructions period must not be ignored. In students' learning, learning preference has got very important place. When students are educated according to their preferences, there successes and skills significantly increase. In this research, when an efficient education was carried out by being thought students' preferences throughout leammg-teaching period, students' academic achievement, attitudes and scientific period skills were tried to develop- increase by being used Dunn and Dunn Learning Style. Practice was carried out at primary school, 6. class students' science education, about the subjects "Cell" and "Vegetal Tissues". Students' academic achievements in their lessons, attitudes towards science education and scientific period skills were researched and they were compared with traditional learning. Research on first test- last test practices was done by getting control and experiment groups. In 2005-2006 educational-instructional year (I. Term), research was done to class 6-A and class 6-B students in Ankara Alparslan Primary School. With regards to students' specialities, both groups were equal, totally 61 students (experiment group = 31/ control groups =30) joined in this study. Whereas Dunn and Dunn Learning Style is used in experiment group, lessons were taught according to traditional learning in control group. Branch study of this research, with first test- last test lasted 8 weeks. In order to test hypothesis of the research, quantitative informations that obtained some particular tools. By being practiced for dependent and independent groups which placed in SPSS statistics program "t" test, frequency, percent analysis quantitative informations were evaluated. As a result of this quantitative analysis' s. Science education which are taught according to Dunn and Dunn Learning Style, students; A. Academically success levels increase, B. Attitudes towards science education develop, C. Scientific period skills increase. Keywords: Dunn and Dunn Learning Style, Science Education, Learning Style, Vegetal Tissues, Cell.