The Learning Styles of the Generation Group Z and Their Influence on Learning Results in the Learning Process

Abstract

The article deals with theoretical description of contemporary problems in the area of young people education. The article also offer discourse to the terms like education, learning process, learning style and generation group Z. The aim of the submitted article is to diagnose the preferred learning styles of generation group Z from the selected secondary technical school and to find the relationship between diagnosed learning styles and the learning results from the general educational subjects. The achievement of the aim was conditioned by the selecting of diagnostic collection tools, setting of the research questions and the research hypotheses, the establishment of the research methods, the definition of the research sample, processing and statistical evaluation of obtained data, interpretation and finally, the summary of the results. The analysed data have been obtained by using the standardized (valid, reliabile) questionnaires. Particularly have been used VARK and LSI IIa) questionnaire. VARK means visual, arual, write/read and kinesthetic questionnaire. LSI IIa) means learning style inventory in revised version. The research methods used in processing of the paper consist of analysis, synthesis, deduction, induction and comparison. Obtained data were analyzed by using the descriptive statistic (histogram, frequency, pie diagrams and table evaluation) and inferential statistics (test of normality, Spearman's test, correlation test). The data have been processed in the statistical program SPSS from IBM and in MS EXCEL from Microsoft. The most important results of the paper are verified by the statistical important relationship between selected general educational subjects and selected learning styles $(\mathbf{rs}=\pmb{0.456}, \mathbf{r}=\pmb{0.346}, \mathbf{r}=\pmb{0.614}$ and $\mathbf{r}=\pmb{0.184)}$. The research findings show, that the students of the generation group Z generally achieve average results from general educational subjects and have growing problem with decreasing the learning results. The authors of the paper are planning to carry out the research with the other generation groups.