The effects of teaching learning strategies in education on students academical success, level of retention and their attitudes towards lessons

In this study, the effects of the use of learning strategies in education on students? academical success, their level of retention, and their attitudes towards the lesson were investigated. This study was conducted among experimentation models as an experimental study with pre-test, post-test and with control group. The achievement test of the unit of ?Community Workers?, attitude scale for Social Studies lesson, lessons plans that are designed with the aim of teaching learning strategies, the texts about the unit of ?Community Workers? were used as data collection method. The results of the data were examined by using SPSS and means, distributions and standard deviations of groups were analyzed. T-test was used to compare ingroups and between groups and the measurement was significant (p<0.5). The results of the study was indicated below : In 5th grade of Social Studies lesson, there is significant difference of the academical successes of students in experimental group who was taught the learning strategies and control group. In 5th grade of Social Studies lesson, there is no significant difference in terms of students? attitudes towards lessons between control and experiment group who was taught the learning strategies. In 5th grade of Social Studies lesson, there is significant difference in terms of students? level of retention between control and experiment group who was taught the learning strategies.