The Analysis of High School Students' Tendencies about Lifelong Learning

Abstract

This study was conducted to analyze whether there was a significant difference among secondary school students' tendencies about lifelong learning in terms of gender and grade variables. The participants were 466 students studying at different high schools in the central province of Siirt at 9 th , 10 th and 11 th grades, who were chosen randomly. 'Lifelong Learning Tendencies Scale' created by Coskun (2009) which has 27 items in it was used to gather related data. Frequency, mean and Mann-Whitney U test were used to evaluate the data. The results of the study showed that the participants' motivation and persistence levels were high in terms of lifelong learning tendency, however lack of interest and organization of learning subcomponents appeared to be at medium level according to student answers. Generally speaking, lifelong learning tendencies of high school students were at medium level. There was a statistically significant difference for the girls as for lifelong learning tendency but there was not such a difference among the students according to class grade variable.

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“…However, college learners’ level of curiosity is only ranked in the third position in this study. In addition, female learners tend to be more curious towards language studies compared with males, which is consistent with some studies in current literature (Pesen & Epcacan, 2017). Considering the presence of women is quite limited in higher education before 1970, female learners might care more about educational opportunities (Scott-Metcalfe & Slaughter, 2007) in order to close the gaps in basic training and activities related to education.…”

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