The Learning Styles of Students of RIT, Chotiwet Campus

Abstract

The research was to study and compare learning styles of students of the faculty of Home Economics, RIT Chotiwet Campus deviding into sex, department and level of education. The sample consisted of 249 students in the second semester of academic year 2003. The 5 rating scale questionnaire consisted of 6 learning styles classified by Reichman and Grasha : Independent, Dependent, Avoidance, Collaborative, Participant and Competitive, consisting of 60 items. The reliability was 0.71. The data were analyzed by using SPSS for window. The statistics used were percentage, mean, standard deviation, t-Test, One -Way ANOVA and Tukey HSD. The results were as follows: 1. Most students occupied collaborative and participant learning styles, then dependent, independent, competitive and avoidance respectively. 2. There was only one difference between male and female students learning styles that was avoidance. 3. Students from different majors had 3 different learning styles which were dependent, collaborative and competitive. 4. Students who were in different levels of study had 1 different learning style which was collaborative.