Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Anadolu Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, cilt.18, sa.03, ss.1-12, 2018 (Hakemli Dergi)
Educators and researchers have long been studying how learners can learn in better ways. After multiple studies have shown that individuals learn in different ways, personality types and learning style constructs have become prominent. Learning style is the relati- vely permanent behavioral patterns of learners in per- ceiving and ordering the new type of information or problem they encounter. The learning style construct has been studied by many researchers focusing on the different aspects of it. Anthony F. Gregorc is one of the researchers focusing on the cognitive dimension of the construct and developed the Learning Style Delineator. Gregorc asserts that cognition is a bi-polar phenome- non consisting of perception and ordering dimensions and individuals differ from each other according to their perception and ordering abilities. Individuals’ per- ception abilities differentiate from concrete to abstract and their ordering abilities vary from sequential to ran- dom. As a result, learners’ learning styles fall into four different categories as concrete-sequential, concrete- random and abstract-sequential, abstract-random. In this study, the characteristics and calculation of Lear- ning Style Delineator, the common personality traits of the four different learning styles and findings of studies conducted by Gregorc model are explained. The final part of the study discusses how learners who have these four learning styles can learn best and an exemplary application is presented.