Learning Style an Approach for Academic Guidance of High School Students

The purpose of this study was investigating high school students’ learning

styles in order to develop an instrument for academic guidance. The

population of this study consisted of male students in three fields of

science, mathematics, and humanities in high schools of Hamedan. The

sample, consisted of 170 male students in grades 2 and 3 of high school in

the fields of science, mathematics, and humanities. Students were selected

through multistage cluster sampling method. Kolb’s Learning Styles

Inventory was employed to measure the students’ learning styles. The

results of the study showed that most of the students in mathematics and

science had a converging and assimilating learning style, and most of the

humanities students had a diverging and accommodating learning style.

Thus, by awareness of students’ learning styles, we can guide them to the

fields that best fit their learning styles in high school or college.