Learning Styles of Students' Attending the 5th and 6th and its Relation with Academic Success (Example of Malatya and Elaz？？ Provinces)

The main purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between learning style of the students attending in elementary education with academic success. This research was carried out on 930 girls and 932 boys attending the fifth and sixth grades in 13 and 14 elementary schools in Malatya and Elaz？g, respectively, during the education year 2009. The model used for the research is relational scanning. Reliability of the study was checked by Kanadl？ and Summak by using the “Kolb Learning Style Inventory” and the “Personal Information Form” developed by the researcher in order to identify learning styles of the students in the research. Weighted year-end average grades of the participants were obtained from the e-School Management Information System to determine academic success of the students. Multiple regression analysis was used to identify whether learning styles are important items explaining the academic success level, Also in that research, chi-square test was applied to determine whether there is a significant difference between students’ learning styles in terms of academic success and t-test and ANOVA was applied to identify a significant relation between students’ learning styles and their demographic and socio-cultural features. As a result of the research; it was seen that specific learning styles became decisive in majority of the students’ “excellent and good” grades. While a significant relation was found between demographic and socio-cultural features such as sex, do not go to classroom, studying room, computer, transportation, studying hours, parents’ education level, father's profession, income level, average scale points regarding students’ learning styles