The Effect of Learning Styles of Accounting Education Students on their Performance: A Field Study

Abstract

AbstractIn the accounting education process, theoretical - practical information is taught as a whole. In this period in which several teaching methods such as cooperative learning, discussion, case studies and so on, are used, the methods are being shaped as educational factor and just one or several of these methods can be used together. The learning style concept is defined in literature as an individual way chosen in analyzing and comprehending. The learning styles are innate and it affects the people's learning process. It is how a person learns than what a person learns. In this context, the students’ success is related directly with the right learning style. So the aim of the study is measuring the influence of learning styles over the students taken accounting courses. Therefore a questionnaire will be applied to the students of ASU FEAS and the data collected will be analyzed with SPSS package program. With the results, we aim bringing out the inventory of students’ learning styles and the performance relations