Learning Styles in Relation to Intelligence, Locale and Sex

The learning style is the learner's preferred way of perceiving and responding to the information in a specific learning situation the concept ofleaming style travel with the learning theories. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between intelligence, locale and gender with different learning styles separately. The sample of the study was 100 students of class 10th studying in different government schools of urban and rural areas in Raipur, Chhattisgarh. A Verbal Intelligence test developed by Ojha and Chowdhury (1970) was used to measure the intelligence of the students and the Indian adaptation of Inventory of Learning Process (ILP) developed by Schmeck, Ribich and Ramanaiah (1977) was used to measure the different learning styles. The data were analyzed using product moment correlation and multiple regression analysis. Positive correlation was found between different learning styles and intelligence. Multiple regression analysis revealed that there is a significant contribution of intelligence to Methodical Study (MS), Fact Retention (FR) and Elaborative Processing (EP) learning styles. The role of gender and locale was not found significant with any of the learning styles.