MATHEMATICS LEARNING STRATEGIES SCALE

EXTENDED ABSTRACT

increase student success

The ultimate goal of all efforts in education is to increase student success. Learning strategies are used by students to help them understand information and solve problems. A learning strategy is a person’s approach to learning and using information. Students who do not know or use good learning strategies often learn passively and ultimately fail in school. Learning strategy instruction focuses on making the students more active learners by teaching them how to learn and how to use what they have learned to solve problems and be successful.

Learning theories have been developed as a result of studies concentrating on how learning takes place, how the individual receives, processes, and stores knowledge. One of these theories is the “Information Processing Theory”, which perceives learning as a mental process. The information processing theory explains the learning process as receiving stimulant, attaching meaning to it, storing it, remembering it to be used, and turning it into behavior. This theory argues that individuals must also become involved in the learning process during learning and make certain efforts. Individuals who become involved in the process during learning and make efforts may enable their own learning. Students who can enable or guide their own learning are called “self-instructed” students. In a learning situation, self-instructed students determine their goals in learning the subject, consider what they know about the subject, plan how much time they need to be able to learn the subject, choose the appropriate learning strategy to learn, perform the strategy, check the result and if learning has not taken place, choose a new strategy. (Senemoğlu, 2007).

The purpose of this study is to develop that can be used in measurement of the learning strategies.