The roles of gender and learning styles on tenth grade students' kinematics graphing skills

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Delialioğlu (Aydoğan), Fatma

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This study was designed to investigate the roles of gender and learning styles on tenth grade students̕ kinematics graphing skills. The study was conducted in 14 representative cities throughout seven different geographical regions over Turkey with a total of 989 tenth grade students in last four weeks of the spring semester of 2002-2003 school year. Findings of the kinematics graphing skills test indicated that general performances of the students were very low and many students have difficulties in interpreting kinematics graphs. When the data were analyzed using Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA), while controlling the effects of students̕ age, previous physics course grades and previous mathematics course grades, the results indicate that there was no significant difference among the kinematics graphing skills test scores of students having different learning styles. Similarly, no significant difference was found between the kinematics graphing skills test scores of female and male students. However, a significant interaction was observed between gender and learning styles on students̕ kinematics graphing skills test scores. The most common learning style type was assimilator for the participants of this study. Accommodator female students̕ kinematics graphing skills test scores were higher than that of female students having other learning styles and converger male students̕ kinematics graphing skills test scores were higher than that of male students having other learning styles on kinematics graphing skills test. Bivariate correlations revealed significant positive correlations between students previous physics course grades, previous mathematics course grades, and age and their kinematics graphing skills test scores.

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Physics education, Kinematics graphing skills, learning style, Learning, Education, Physics

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/764654/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/13784

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis

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F. Delialioğlu (Aydoğan), “The roles of gender and learning styles on tenth grade students’ kinematics graphing skills,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2003.