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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2021.22.1.197

A Comparison Study of College Student Pilots' Learning Styles in Flight Training School: applying Kolb's Learning Style Model  

Hwang, Jae-Kab (Department of Aviation Safety, Seoul Regional Office of Aviation)
Lee, Gun-Young (Department of Flight Operation, Korea National University of Transportation)
Yoon, Han-Young (Division of Comprehensive Aviation Studies, Hanseo University)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.22, no.1, 2021 , pp. 197-207 More about this Journal
Abstract
According to the analysis of Kolb's learning style, Korean university student pilots interpret and attach meaning to themselves. Moreover, as the school year progresses, they enter the flight-training course with a 100 % diverger style, which is a variety of thoughts and imaginative learning styles. As the school year progresses, some changes occur with accommodator (11.1%) and assimilator (15.9%) styles. On the other hand, most students remain as the diverger style (71.4%). In the case of U.S. student pilots, most in first-year are assimilator (35.5%) and converger (24.3%) styles, and the proportion of the converger style increases as the senior year is approached. In the first grade, most Chinese student pilots are assimilators (41.5%) and convergers (28.4%), but in the higher grade, the proportion of assimilators and convergers decrease, and the proportion of diverger styles increases dramatically. In the fourth grade, the accommodator was similar to the first grade, but the converger style continued to decrease (41.5% in the first grade and 27.0% in the fourth grade).
Keywords
Kolb's Learning Style; Student pilot; Diverger; Converger; Flight training;
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