LEARNING STYLE OF STUDENTS BELONGING TO PRIVATE AND GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS

Educating each individual in the classroom through individualized instruction is not a dream nowadays. To meet with the challenges which arise due to the fact that individuals differ very much in all aspects of their personality, various methods and techniques have been developed by researchers, educationists and psychologist. Identifying student's learning style is one of the method which may be used for individualized instruction. Objective of the present research is to study the learning style of students belonging to Govt. and private schools. Sampling of 296 private school students and 291 Govt. school students has been taken for the present study. Learning Style Inventory by Dr. S.C.Agarwal has been used for collection of data. Learning style which are considered in this inventory are- Individualistic vs. non-individualistic,Field independent vs. field dependent,Motivation centered vs. motivation non-centered,Modality preference (Aural vs. visual),Environment oriented vs. environment free,Flexible vs. non-flexible,Short attention span vs. long attention span. The reliability coefficient ranged from 0.841 to 0.912. Chi square has been used to analyse the data and it is found that the students belonging to government schools and private schools do not differ significantly on learning style Individualistic vs. Non-individualistic and Environment oriented vs. Environment free. The students belonging to private schools have shown preference for Flexible learning style,Visual learning style, Field-independent learning style, Short attention span learning style, Motivation-centered learning style in comparison to government school students.