The preferred learning styles of Palestine Technical University Kadoorie students and the effect of some variables on them

Abstract

This research aimed at investigating about the preferred learning styles and the effect of some variables such as the university branch, gender, education program, academic year, specialization, and cumulative average. To achieve that, the two researchers used the Index of learning styles (ILS) developed by Felder and Solomon (Litzinger, et al, 2005) consisting of 44 items to evaluate learning preferences, and which was applied on purpose cluster sample of (345) students. After using the SPSS statistical analysis program, the results of the study show that the preferred learning style in descending order is (active-reflective, visual-verbal, sequential-global, and sensing-intuitive). The study also revealed that there are statistically significant differences for the visual-verbal style according to Ramallah and Arrob branch, also there are statistically significant differences for sequential-global style according to gender in favor of females. And there are no statistically significant differences for education program, academic year, specialization, and cumulative average.