A study on the relationship between the Thinking Styles and the Learning Styles of the high school students in Tehran

Now-a-days in the educational systems، a special attention is given to the development of the thinking skills. In such systems the children learn how to use their thoughts in their daily life. Therefore it seems that knowing thinking styles (as an individual’s preferred procedure in reasoning، assessment and judgment) and its applications can be conductive in the daily life. The purpose of this study also was to understand the relationship between the thinking styles and the Grasha-Reichmann learning styles. The participants in this study were the high school students of Tehran. 533 students (258 girls and 275 boys) were selected from this community and answered to the Thinking Style Inventory (TSI) (Zhang and Sternberg، 2005) and Grasha and Reichmann Student Learning Style Scale (GRSLSS) (Grasha & Reichmann، 1996). Findings of this study indicated that the thinking styles have significant relationship with the learning styles. The findings also indicated that the thinking styles could anticipate any of the learning styles with different patterns. It seems that the students with type-I thinking style prefer the independent learning styles، while ones with type-II and type-III thinking styles lean towards the other thinking styles.