AN INVESTIGATION ON THE LEARNING STYLES OF B.Ed. TRAINEES

The present study is an attempt to find the preferred Learning Styles of B.Ed. Trainees and its effect on a set of independent variables based on Gender, Educational Qualifications, Type of Institutions and their Medium of Study. To achieve this aim, the researcher has adopted survey method. The tool used for the data collection was Learning Styles Inventory developed by Dr. Karuna Shankar Misra (2012). Tool was administered to 230 B.Ed. Trainees drawn randomly from three B.Ed. colleges of Patna.The findings indicated that Verbal Constructive Learning Style was found to be more prevalent Learning Style among B.Ed. Trainees. Furthermore, the results show that there is no significant difference between Learning Styles and its dimensions i.e.Enactive Reproducing, Enactive Constructive, Figural Reproducing, Figural Constructive, Verbal Reproducing and Verbal Constructive Learning Styles on the basis of their Gender, Type of Institutions and Medium of Study. Another major finding is that, there is a significant difference between Graduate and Post-Graduate B.Ed. Trainees in their Learning Styles and its dimensions i.e. Figural Reproducing and Figural Constructive Learning Styles. This information is quite useful to the teachers as by understanding the preference of the students for different Learning Styles would aid them in aligning the course delivery in conjunction with students preferred Learning Styles.