Comparative Study of Learning Style Preferences of Sanskrit and Hindi Medium School Students

Abstract

In this study Learning Style preferences of Sanskrit and Hindi Medium senior secondary school students have been compared. A sample of 624 (206 Sanskrit medium and 416 Hindi medium) senior secondary school students was selected through random non- proportionate sampling technique from Jaipur district of Rajasthan state. Learning Styles preferences of the students were measured through Learning Style Inventory (LSI) developed and standardized by Agrawal (1987). To find out the association in the learning style preference of Sanskrit and Hindi medium senior secondary schools, seven 2×2 contingency tables were prepared for the data obtained and chi-square values were calculated respectively. Findings of the study show that Sanskrit medium students do not shown significantly different preferences from their counterparts with regard to their preference for all learning styles i.e. Flexible vs. Non flexible, Individualistic vs. Non individualistic, Visual vs. Aural, field dependent vs. field independent, Short attention vs. span Long attention span, Motivation centered vs. Motivation non centered and Environment oriented vs. Environment free learning styles.