Differences in Learning Styles: A comparison of Slovenian Universities

Abstract

Students have various learning styles. Since we cannot adapt to each single student, we can still find differences across the students that attend different universities. To achieve better results when teaching, the educators should understand which learning style prevails in their students. Our research was conducted via questionnaire and included questions about the students and their learning styles. We used the Honey and Mumford's learning style questionnaire (LSQ) to measure the various learning styles (reflectors, theorists, activists, pragmatists) across three Slovenian universities, searched for the learning style that prevails in each university and present the differences among them. We found minor differences in the prevailing learning styles and propose to the educators to plan their teaching approaches on our findings. We propose further examination of students’ learning styles to improve the learning experience and to generalize this approach when dealing with students learning style preferences.