A Descriptive Study of the Learning Style Profiles of the Engineering Students at the Middle East Technical University (METU)

Abstract

This descriptive study identified engineering students’ learning styles and the differences in the learning styles according to sex and department. To determine the differences in the learning styles of engineering students, the Turkish version of the Index of Learning Style (ILS) developed by Felder-Solomon for engineering students was used. The form was administered to 400 engineering students at METU. The differences in learning style preferences according to sex and department factors were assessed via Chisquare tests. The results showed that engineering students are active, sensing, visual and global learners rather than reflective, intuitive, verbal and sequential. The Chi-square results did not indicate any significant results in all of the four learning style dimensions in terms of sex and department.