Learning Styles and Their Implications for Cross-Cultural Management in Singapore.

This article explores the learning styles of Singaporean students and compares the findings with two previous studies based on United States samples. Researchers in the study measured each type of learning using 12 items in the inventory and totaled the scores for these items to calculate the overall score for each type of learning. They used a multivariate analysis of variance to determine whether the scores for the four types of learning were significantly different from each other. It is hypothesized that students who major in different subjects would have different learning styles, they first tested for the effects of subject background. If these effects proved to be significant, we planned to make disciplines the unit of analysis rather than treating the respondents as an undifferentiated category. They calculated the subjects' average dimensional scores and used them as the intersection points in a learning style grid. Each individual's learning style was established by plotting his or her scores along the two dimensions of the grid. They ascertained the learning style that was most prevalent in each discipline, using the average dimensional scores of the discipline.