Journal of Educational Sciences > Volume 24, No. 4, 2012

Construct Validity of Model Felder and Silverman learning Styles of Students University  / El Sayed Mohamed Abu Hashem

This research aims at present to identify the truthfulness structural model Felder & Silverman , FSLSM,  of the methods of learning, which includes four methods to learn is: Active — Reflective , and sensing — intuitive, and visual — verbal, sequential —Global. In the , 1160,  students from various faculties at the University of King Saud, and using Exploratory factor analysis and correlation coefficients, coefficient alpha Cronbach, and the Spilt half method Spearman Brown, Guttmann, test «T», and multiple regression analysis, the results Showed: , 1,  verify the truth certain amount of a form of Felder and Silverman learning styles of students at the university in the Saudi environment , saturation of the terms of the questionnaire to explain the four factors together , 82.32%,  of the variance, and the enjoyment of these factors large degree of autonomy. , 2,  there are significant differences between the average scores of students according to learning styles in light of the model and Felder Silverman: Active — Reflective , and sensing — intuitive, and visual — verbal, sequential — Global. , 3,  there are significant differences between means of scores of college students , human — Scientific,  in the methods of learning in the light of the model and Felder Silverman: Active — Reflective , and sensing — intuitive faculties of humanity. While there are no differences between them in the learning styles visual — verbal, and sequential — Global. , 4,  prediction of performance on the learning styles questionnaire in the light of the model Felder and Silverman learning performance of students at the university in the Saudi environment.