LEARNING STYLES OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN ANAMBRA STATE, NIGERIA: IMPLICATIONS FOR GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING

Abstract

Understanding a student’s learning style preference is an important consideration when designing classroom instruction. This study investigated learning styles of secondary school students and their implication for guidance and counselling in Awka Education zone, Anambra State. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design. A multi-stage sampling procedure was adopted and used in selecting a sample size of 1,241 students from a population of 6,279 students in public secondary schools. A validated questionnaire titled, Learning Style Questionnaire was used to collect data for the study. The questionnaire has reliability coefficient alphas of 0.68, 0.64 and 0.77 on each of the learning style cluster. The questionnaire was administered through direct delivery approach. Data was collected and analysed using percentages. The findings revealed that majority of the students have good visual, auditory and kinaesthetic learning styles. Based on the findings, the following recommendations among others were made that school guidance counsellors should take into account the students‘diverse learning styles in order to design counselling strategies that take care of those diversities and remain sensitive of such during their learning process.