Brain Dominance Learning Styles for Secondary School Students Distinguished and Ordinary

Abstract

The current research aims at detecting Brain Dominance Learning Styles distinguished
and ordinary secondary school students (males and females).The researcher adopted Torrance
measure, known as ‘the style of your learning and thinking to measure Brain Dominance
Learning Styles’, the codified version of Joseph Qitami (1986); picture (a). The researcher
verified the standard properties of tool. The final application sample was 352 distinguished
and ordinary students; 176 distinguished male and female students and 176 ordinary male and
female students at the scientific fifth level of secondary school from schools in the province of
Baghdad, AL- KarKh Education Directorates in the First and Second . and who have been
selected in a stratified random sampling . After the application the tool of research and
analysis of the data statistically by using statistical methods ( Chi- Square, ,Guttman
Correlation), the Researcher arrived at the following results:
1.The right learning style is the dominant brain style among Individuals the research sample
Applied .
2.The presence of statistically significant differences in the right Brain Dominance Learning
Style among the sample Individuals at distinguished and ordinary in favor of distinguished
students .
3. The lack of statistically significant differences in the Brain Dominance Learning Styles can
be attributed to the sex variable.