Abstract:

Learning styles play a vital role in education and teaching because it helps teachers with understanding how students learn. This study was directed towards the effect of personality characteristics on the learning styles of students. The statistical population of the study consisted of the students College of Agriculture and Natural Resources Tehran University in the 2009-2010 academic year (N=3859) convened the universe of the study, out of which 260 people determined as sample using Cochran Formula. A quantitative research methodology was used to conduct the study. The specific method chosen to investigate the research questions was a series of three paper form questionnaires. Majority of students had assimilator learning style and dimensions of personality treats including extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, openness to experience and neuroticism, were in medium level. For the big five personality factors expect neuroticism, a consistent positive association with learning styles was found. Consequence of standardized canonical discriminant function coefficients indicates importance of conscientiousness variable for distinction between converger learning style and three other learning styles, the importance of extraversion for distinction between diverger and two other learning styles and openness to experience for distinction between accommodator and converger learning styles.

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