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This study was conducted for the purpose of determining the dominant learning styles of gifted students and their non-gifted peers and detecting the correlations of their learning styles according to variables of gender, class level and age interval. The study was conducted with 187 gifted students (87 girls, 100 boys) receiving education in the Malatya Science and Art Center and 188 students (96 girls, 92 boys) attending public schools in the fall term of the academic year of 2018-2019. Accordingly, Kolb Learning Style Inventory-III (KLSI-III), which was developed by Kolb (1999) and adapted into Turkish by Gencel (2007) and tested in terms of validity and reliability, was used in the study for the purpose of determining the learning styles of students. Reliability coefficients for the subscales of the scale were found in the interval of 0.69 and 0.75. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and chi-square test. According to the results of the study, it was observed that the dominant learning styles of the gifted students who participated in the study were "Accommodating" (35.3%), "Converging" (27.8%) and "Diverging" (25.1%); whereas, the dominant learning styles of non-gifted peers were "Converging" (45.7%) and "Accommodating" (27.1%). It was observed that the learning styles of the students did not significantly differentiate in both of the student groups according to gender, class level, and age interval.Keywords: Colb Learning Style, Gifted Students, Non-Gifted Students

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