Abstract:

This research has been made to identify how often the School of Physical Education and Sports students using the general learning strategies; if the learning strategies used by students differentiate according to the gender and the branch of the sports. The universe of the research have been composed of 730 first and second education students of Selçuk University, School of Physical Education and Sport; Physical Education and Sports Teacher, Sports Management and Coaching Education Department. It has been tried to reach the total of the universe, but there were absent students and unwilling students to join the questionnaire and the research has been applied to 446 students. In the research as data collecting instrument has been used personal information form developed by the researcher and "The Evaluation Scale of General Learning Strategies" developed by Öztürk (1995). In the analysis of the data, Mann Whitney U, Kruskal Wallis-H, t-test and One Way Variance Analysis (ANOVA) have been used and the significance level has been taken as (p < 0.05). In the result of the research it has been determined that the students often use from the general learning strategies, attention, repetition, giving meaning, fixing mind, memory and the strategy of the cognition and they sometimes use affective strategies. It has been also determined that some of the learning strategies used by the students differentiate according to the gender and the branch of the sports done by them. 

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