Learning Style Changes and Their Relationship to Critical Thinking Skills

Journal of College Teaching & Learning, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 45-60, January 2007

Posted: 18 Jun 2007

See all articles by Costas Siriopoulos

Costas Siriopoulos

Zayed University, College of Business; University of Patras - Business Administration

Gerasimos A. Pomonis

University of Patras - Business Administration

Abstract

This study reports on the results of a research on learning styles and critical thinking skills of sixty eight postgraduate students of Master's Level Business Education Programs. These students have participated in both phases of our research. In the first phase, carried out in spring 2005, Kolb's Learning Style Inventory (LSI v.3) was the basis of the administered questionnaire and in the second phase, carried our in winter 2005 - 06, the LSI v.3 and the California Critical Thinking Skills Test (CCTST) were the basis of the administered questionnaire. Results show that the prevailing learning style types are the 'assimilating' and the 'converging' ones. Between the first and the second phase students have become more balanced learners. This balanced learning development relates to both 'Concrete - Abstract' and 'Active - Reflective' dimensions of the learning process and this latter dimension correlates significantly with students' critical thinking skills on all scales of the used instrument.

Keywords: learning styles and types, balanced learning, critical thinking skills, interrelationship

JEL Classification: A12, A23

Suggested Citation

Siriopoulos, Costas and Pomonis, Gerasimos A., Learning Style Changes and Their Relationship to Critical Thinking Skills. Journal of College Teaching & Learning, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 45-60, January 2007, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=993518

Costas Siriopoulos

Zayed University, College of Business ( email )

P.O. Box 144534
Abu Dhabi
United Arab Emirates

University of Patras - Business Administration ( email )

Patras
Greece

Gerasimos A. Pomonis (Contact Author)

University of Patras - Business Administration ( email )

Patras
Greece

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