Determination of learning styles and achievements of talented students in the fields of science and mathematics (original) (raw)

The purpose of this study is to determine the distribution of talented and gifted students’ course achievements in the fields of mathematics and science according to the learning styles. General screening method was used in this research. The universe of the research consists of Ninth grade students who study at Bornova Anatolian High School that is the project school in 2016-2017 education academic year. The sample of the study was composed of 11 talented and gifted students who were selected by convenience sampling method. In order to determine learning styles of the students, Learning Style Inventory, which was developed by Kolb(1985) and adapted into Turkish by Aşkar and Akkoyunlu (1993), and students mathematics and physics end of term grade point averages’ were utilized as data collections. Learning style inventory norms developed by Kolb (1985) were taken into consideration in determining students’ learning styles. After determining learning styles, the distribution of the st...