Hi!

Even if there should exist any such test anywhere, the area of ”learning styles” is so hopelessly unclear, with more than 40 different categorizations, concepts and models , that I doubt you get anything meaningful out of it. Too many variables. ”Learning styles” sounds appealing, but is a field with very little real evidence behind. One thing may be that people prefer input through different senses, another thing is to show proof that they learn any better this way. To claim something can come out of research on learning styles to help course design is still more hopeless.

See for example the site https://debunker.club (check ”resources”) or here https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/learning-styles-debunked-there-is-no-evidence-supporting-auditory-and-visual-learning-psychologists-say.html

Learning habits, that is something else and quite researchable.

Thanks for your answer so you mean that there no suitable test for such data or that it is not really adding anything to my research point

If each student is in one of two groups and each student is categorized into mutually-exclusive learning style, then you can conduct a Chi Square Test of Independence. A statistically significant result would suggest the proportions of learning styles differ across the groups. Anders makes an important point about the validity of learning styles, so that may influence how you interpret your results. Best wishes with your project, Safaa. ~ Kevin

Thank you Kevin

Depends on some other characteristics of the variables, but it could be possible (if the second variable is continuous / scores on the ''test '' or scale ...) to use t-test. Independent variable is dichotomous and that is one of preconditions. Another is that dependent variable is continuous - don't know is it the case with your research instrument and data.

But, as Anders Norberg mention - I also think this is very unclear area. That's why I can't be sure ...

Hello Dijana I am comparing the reasons of attending lectures between two independent groups of students

Could you measure their attendance (or some other value...) in the continuous way? I mean without ''spaces'' between scores. What is the type of your instrument, of the items? Scale or...?

Hi

It depends of variables, type of reaserch, descriptive??? you should prepare an intrument

Ingrid

I am not a stats expert so i will talk in a simple way, I have two groups of students from different faculties and the choices are , lectures , online learning , team based learning , audio recordings etc and i have the number of students preferring each style, so what is the best test to find oit if there is any statistical significane between both groups and within the same group

Yes ingrid it is descriptive

In that case, Chi- square test and contingency coefficient , I think so.

ANOVA F distribution with T tests to confirm.

I campared the multiple intelligences profiles of non-native proficient English speakers (as a second language) and non-proficients. Two groups, multiple variables in each (8 multiple intelligences, SPSS analysis of the results of a Gardner recommended survey, MIDAS Youth. I wanted to know why certain students llearned English and were proficient with just classroom instruction, not living in an English speaking environment, while others struggled and stayed behind (very non- proficient in the same environment. Subjects were high school students in a Spanish speaking country.

Descriptive

SPSS aplications

Study of items

thanks Ingrid

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Hi Safaa,

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If the variables are non parametric in nature then Chi Square may be used. Please feel free to discuss more.

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Use Chi-squared analysis if you want to see if the proportions of use are different between the two groups.

thanks Amanda

Depends on how and what you are assessing. If you get scores in two of these methods, (quantitative) u can use unpaired t test (if normally distributed) or Mnan Whitney U (if not normally distributed). U may also assess based on qualitative output where it is a different approach.

Our recent (this month) article in Virtual Microscopy in medical science Educator may help. We have done a comparison of two teaching methods.

Doris

thanks Doris it is a check box question meaning one student can check more than one box for example when asking them about their learning preferences

It depends on what kind of data you are working on (which LS model you are using and how the results of the LS assessment look like). Try to identify whether the samples are dependent or independent, normally distributed or not, then you will have a starting point to find out which tests you have to use.

thank you