WHAT IS VALIDITY AND RELIABILITY STUDY OF LEARNING STYLE SURVEY?

This study was designed to investigate the validity and reliability of the Turkish version of Learning Style Survey (LSS), which was developed by Cohen, Oxford, and Chi (2001). The survey was applied to the subjects of 768 prep students who were enrolled English Prep Classes in seven different universities such as Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul Technical University, Bogazici University, Maltepe University, Bahcesehir University, Istanbul Bilgi University, and Sabanci University, in Istanbul, Turkey. Pearson's correlations between Turkish and English versions of the survey ranging from, except for the items 46, 86 and 87, 0.36 to 0.83 among the 23 subscales indicated acceptable reliability. The correlations were significant at the 0.00 and 0.01 level. The results of factor analysis for construct validity of the survey addressed 12 subscales under the six dimensional constructs with 52 items. The total internal reliability of scale was 0.88 reliability coefficients. Findings demonstrated that the subscales had internal consistency reliabilities, item total correlation, ranged from 0.20 to 0.45. Test re-test reliability for external reliability of subscales was between 0.51-0.79. The results were discussed in terms of the validity and reliability of the Turkish version.