A Comparison of the Learning Styles of Undergraduate Students and Their Instructors at Hacettepe Unicersity

Abstract

This study was conducted on 569 senior students and 310 lecturers during the Spring Semester of the 1995-1996 academic year at Hacettepe University. The levels of the relationship between the learning styles and age, sex, academic title, types of university entrance exam scores and school of graduate studies of the lecturers were all found significant, except age.
The learning styles of the lecturers and the students grouped according to the types of university entrance exam scores were compared by using the "significance of the difference between proportions method". The female students were identified as Convergers whereas the female lecturers were identified as Accommodators. Male lecturers were to be more inclined to be Divergers compared to the male students.
The learning styles of the students and the lecturers grouped according to the types of university entrance exam scores were compared using the "significance of the difference between proportions method." The students in the departments entered based on Science and Aptitude scores were found to be more inclined to be Convergers compared to the lecturers.