Pre-Service Elementary School
Teachers’ Learning Styles and
Attitudes towards Mathematics
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Afyon Kocatepe Üniversitesi, Afyonkarahisar, TURKEY
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Başkent Üniversitesi, Ankara, TURKEY
Publication date: 2008-01-22
EURASIA J. Math., Sci Tech. Ed 2008;4(1):21-26
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the differences of pre-service elementary
school teachers’ attitudes towards mathematics according to their learning styles. Two
hundreds eighty one pre-service elementary school teachers were involved in this study.
The researchers employed two types of instruments, Learning Style Inventory and Scale of
Mathematics Attitude Questionnaire, to collect the data. The learning style inventory was
designed to detect the participants’ learning styles, Divergent, Assimilator, Convergent,
and Accommodator, and the scale of mathematics attitude questionnaire was used to find
the participants’ attitudes towards mathematics. After the collection of the data, the
researchers run the one-way ANOVA to show the attitude differences based on the
learning styles. The study concluded that there were statistically significant differences
found between the attitudes of learners, convergent and assimilator, and that the
convergent learners had more positive attitudes towards mathematics than the assimilator
learners.