ASSESSMENT OF LEARNING STYLES AMONG PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS

The main objective of the study is to find out the level of learning styles among pre-service teachers with respect to Locale, Academic Streams and Type of Management. Survey method was adopted to collect the relevant data for the present study. Learning Styles Questionnaire (LSQ) was constructed and validated by Peter Honey and Alan Mumford and it was used to collect data for the present study. The Investigator randomly Selected 630 pre-service teachers (D.T.Ed.) studying in Government, Government Aided and Private Teacher Training Institutions in Chennai. For analyzing the data percentage, mean, standard deviation,‘t'- test and one way ANOVA are used. The major findings of the study are: The most of the pre-service teachers having moderate level of learning style preference. With regard to locale and Academic Streams, the result reveals that there is no significance difference in overall learning styles among pre-service teachers. The Self Financing institutions pre-service teachers have higher learning styles compared to their counterparts