The relationship of students learning Styles and historical Thinking
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The aim of this research is to investigate the relationship between learning style (LS) and historical thinking skills (HTS) among Malaysian secondary school learners. The Grasha-Riechmann model used in this study consists of independent, avoidance, collaborate, dependent, competitive and participant learning styles. However, the historical thinking skill is using the Malaysian Ministry of Education model which consists of understanding the chronology, exploring evidence, interpreting, imagining, and rationalizing. A total of 400 fourth-grade students were selected as sample from high schools in the district of Hulu Langat, Selangor. Data were evaluated using SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences 22.0). The findings of the pilot test used Cronbach’s alpha assessment which showed that the learning styles were at a high point of reliability, 0.89 and 0.92 for the HTS. The findings of the descriptive evaluation test indicate that the dominant learning style is cooperative and competitive learning style.
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