Learning Approaches of Vocational High School Students: Grade Level and School Type Influences

Abstract

In today's educational context there is a need to focus on variables that affect learning. One of these variables is the learning approach, which encompasses students' motives and strategies for learning. The purpose of the study is to examine the learning approach (deep, surface) preferences of vocational high school students according to the variables of grade level and school type. The data of the study have been gathered through Learning Approaches Inventory adapted into Turkish by Colak and Fer (2007). Inventory was applied to tenth and eleventh grade students studying at Vocational and Technical High School. Data analyzed by MANOVA. Findings were discussed regarding to the literature. (C) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.