The Relationship Between the Learning Styles of Students and Their Attitudes Towards Social Studies Course

The objective of the study is to determine the relationship between the attitudes of primary school students towards social studies course and their learning styles and to put forth the change between their learning styles and attitudes towards social studies course according to their classes. Descriptive scanning model has been used in the study. The research group consists of 320 primary school students. Perceptual Learning Style Preference Survey and Attitude Scale for Social Studies Course have been used as data acquisition tools. As a result of the study, a positive and medium scale statistically significant relationship has been determined between the learning styles of students and their attitudes towards social studies course. In addition, whereas there is a statistically significant difference between the auditory kinesthetic and tactile learning styles between classes, no difference has been determined between other learning styles. (C) 2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of The Association of Science, Education and Technology