Understanding Learning Styles of Secondary School Agriculture Students in Eldoret East Sub County, Kenya
Keywords:
Learning styles;, secondary school students.Abstract
This study was designed to investigate the preferred learning style of secondary school Agriculture students. The students’ mean scores in the subject from the year 2007 to 2013 were less than 50 percent of the expected score nationally. The mean scores in Agriculture in Eldoret East Sub County ranged between 5.11 and 5.62 out of the possible 12.00. This poor performance has been partially attributed to students’ learning styles; their interest in the material under study, motivation and the learning environment. However, few empirical studies have been done to determine the learning styles of secondary school agriculture students. The target population was 1200 form three agriculture students. The sample of the study consisted of 291 agriculture students. Descriptive survey study design was adopted for the study. Kolb’s (1999) learning style inventory (LSI) was used in this study to profile the preferred learning styles of agriculture students as converging, accommodating, diverging and assimilating. The findings of the study reveal that majority of the students converging learning style and diverging learning style least preferred. Descriptive statistics was used to analyze the data. The analysis of data revealed that secondary agriculture students posse all the four learning style. The study also depicts that gender affects learning styles.
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