A STUDY ON IMPACT OF HOME ENVIRONMENT ON LEARNING STYLES OF THE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN VELLORE DISTRICT

Home environment refers to all sorts of moral and ethical values along with emotional, social and intellectual climate set up by the family members to contribute to the wholesome development of an individual.Learning style is a concept that can be important in this movement, not only in informing teaching practices but also in bringing to the surface issues that help faculty and administrators think more deeply about their roles and the organizational culture in which they carry out their responsibilities. 300 High school students have been selected as the sample using random sampling technique for the present investigation. The tools viz., Home Environment Inventory constructed and validated by Ceema Nair, J., and I. Jesudoss, S.J., (2014) and Learning Style Inventory (LSI) constructed and validated by Sean Whiteley (2004), has been used in the present investigation. Further the study is delimited to the high school students and the descriptive, differential analysis and correlation analysis has been carried out using the SPSS which gives the findings for the present investigation as the majority of the high school student shows high level of home environment and average level of learning style. KEYWORDS: Home environment, Learning style and high school students.