The correlation between the attitudes to physic class and learning styles of second class prospective teachers in the primary school mathematics teaching

The aim of this research is to investigate the correlation between the attitudes to physic class and learning styles of second class prospective teachers in the primary school mathematics teaching.The general screening model was accepted by the research.This research was conducted with 137 studens attending to Primary School Mathematics Teaching Department at Buca Education Faculty, in İzmir for the spring term of 2011- 2012 academic years.In the research quantitative approach was adopted.The data were collected by ?Kolb Inventory of Learning Style? developed in 1985 by Kolb and then tested its accuracy by translating in Turkish in 1993 by Aşkar and Akkoyunlu , ?Physcis Attitude Scale? developed by Gamze Sezgin Selçuk (2004), for determining the personal information of the students ?personal information form? are used. Research data have been obtained using SPSS 15.0.The data were analyzed using , numbers, frequencies, and percentages, the square test (X²), calculation of average and standard point, Levenne, Scheffe and t-test in the comparison of two sets; one-way variant analysis (Anova) in the comparison of the sets with a number of more than two, 0.05 meaningfulness level is considered to determine if there is a certain difference or not among the variants.At the end of the research, it is determined that twenty-one of students prefer converger type of laerning styles, twenty ?three of students have accomadator type of learning styles, thirty-four of students have assimilator type and fifty- nine of studets have diverger type of learning styles.Mostly male and female students prefer diverger and assimilator type of learning styles.According to class variant, diverger and assimilator type of learning styles are used by the first and second education department students mostly .Students,graduated from Anatolian high school, Anatolian teacher high school and the other high schools prefer diverger type of learning styles mostly.Attitudes towards physic lesson is examined by two sub-dimensions.(interest and importance) According to the two sub-dimensions, male students have more positive attitude than female students to the physic lesson. Male student?s interest and importance sub-dimensions attitude scores are higher than female students. Addition that,it is determined that the scores of students,who are in first education of subdimension on importance and interest, are higher than the scores of students,who are in second education.It is determined that the attitudes of the male and female students graduated from different high schools (anaotolian high school ,anatolian teacher high school and the other high schools) to the physic lesson are observed as the same. It is determined that students with different learning styles show difference in their attitudes to the physics lesson. There has been a reasonable difference between interest sub-dimension attitude of physic scores average of the students having accomadator type of learning style and interest sub-dimension attitude of physic scores average of the students having assimilator and diverger type of learning.On the other hand, There has been a reasonable difference between importance sub-dimension attitude of physic scores average of the students having assimilator type of learning style and importance sub-dimension attitude of physic scores average of the students having accomadator and diverger learning styles by considering 0.05 meaningfulness level.Keywords: Learning, Learning Styles, Attitude, Attitude Towards The Physic Lesson