Learning Styles of Gifted and Non- Gifted Students in Tafila Governorate

This study aimed to investigate learning styles of gifted and nongifted students, and its relationship with school type, gender and grade. The sample of this study consists of 90 (Female=41, Male=49) gifted Students, and 90 (Female=43, Male=47) nongifted student in Tafila Governorate Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, for the second semester of the academic year 2012/2013. Learning style Questionnaire of (Jaber & Quran, 2004) was adopted as a study instrument to identify students' learning styles. The results indicated that the most preferred learning styles amongst gifted students are: visual/non-verbal style, followed by Kinesthetic Learning style, visual/verbal style and auditory learning style respectively. Whereas the most preferred learning styles for nongifted students are: auditory learning style, followed by visual/verbal style, visual/non-verbal Style, and kinesthetic learning style. Significant differences were found in all learning styles between gifted and nongifted students were in favor of gifted students. There were no statistically significant differences in learning styles between gifted and nongifted students due to the gender variable; and statistical significant differences were found among learning styles students due to their grade in favor the tenth grade.