Analysis on the impacting factors of urban middle school students' learning strategies

Objective To explore urban middle students' learning strategies, as well as to provide substantial evidences for learning strategies counselling in middle schools. Methods The differences between sexes,among grades and between class types were examined by t test and MANOVA for 466 middle school students. Resukts The participants'total learning strategies level (3.17±0.52) was slightly higher than midpoint "3" of moderate level. Significant score differences of total learning strategies was found between genders((3.11 ±0.54)vs(3.22±0.48), t=2.30, P＜0.05) and among grades ((3.26±0.51)vs(3.09±0.51), t=3.50, P＜0.01). Interaction of grade and class type on learning strategies was significant (F=7.997,P＜0.01). Conclusion Learning strategies level of middle school students exist genders and grades,and grade and cla.ss type have interaction obviously. Key words: Learning strategies;  Influencing factor;  Middle school student