Middle school students learning styles: the relationship between student science achievement and attitudes (lone of afyonkarahisar)

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between students? learning styles and science achievement, and students? attitudes towards science. There were a total of 468 7th and 8th graders involved in this study that took place in Afyonkarahisar. The researcher used the Kolb?s Learning Style Inventory (LSI) to determine the participants? learning styles and the Scale of Attitudes Towards Science to find out the attitudes of the participants for science. The independent-samples t-test, descriptive statistics and one way ANOVA with a = 0.05 were employed in the analysis of the data. The study showed that students preferred the most assimilating learning styles. There was a statistically significant difference found among the achievements of converging-assimilating and converging-diverging learners. Likewise, the study also documented that there was a statistically significant difference detected among the attitudes of converging-assimilating and converging-diverging learners. Furthermore, gender was not a factor on students? science attitudes. However, gender was an important factor on students? science achievement