The Relationship of Gender and Learning Styles to Achievement and Laboratory Skills in Secondary School Chemistry Students [microform] / Sandra H. Harpole
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- 5485584
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- Harpole, Sandra H
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1987
- 11 p.
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Some researchers have argued that it is important to match teaching styles with students' learning styles, although a relatively small amount of research has been done on learning styles in science. This study focused on the differences between male and female secondary school chemistry students in an effort to determine the relationship of gender and learning styles to achievement and laboratory skills. The sample consisted of 41 chemistry students in grades 10 and 11 in a Mississippi high school. The Canfield Learning Styles Inventory Form S-A was used to determine each student's learning style. The results of the study indicated that male chemistry students preferred situations that involved numbers and logic, computing and solving mathematical problems, and benefitted from course work that was logically and clearly organized and assignments that were meaningful. Female chemistry students tended to need laboratory activities in which they could work with people and help each other. It is suggested that the planning of different types of laboratory activities for males and females may enhance laboratory skills, and that consideration should be given to the structure of instructional procedures with females being allowed to set their own objectives and males given more logical, well-defined instructional procedures. (TW)
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- ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Mid-South Educational Research Association (Mobile, AL, November, 1987).
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