English abstract
The study aimed at investigating The cerebral hemispheric styles of students with learning difficulties, at the first symposium of primary education. It also aimed at knowing the nature of differences in hemispherity styles according to the gender (males, females) and the level of the students being third or fourth grades. The sample of the study consisted of (111) students with learning difficulties from AL-Batinah South region. Male students were (80) and the female were (31). The research instrument was Torrance Scale for Learning and Thinking Styles after adapting it to the Omani environment and measuring its constancy.
To answer the first research question about the cerebral hemispheric style for students who have learning difficulties, means and standard deviations for each pattern, and to ensure that whether these variables are different from each other by statistics designation, then used the MANOVA, and also classified sample soles according to type of ascendant pattern of each individual according to the greatest repetition. Where the result refers to that, there are statistics designations when using any style of the three styles, that leads to the mean of each style to differ from the other in statistics designation, also the results displays that, the right style is the ascendant hemisphere dominant to the students with learning difficulties.
Achieving the second target to the assessment of the implication of the statistical variation in the cerebral hemispheric style due to variables such as gender (males, females) and the level of the students being third or fourth grades. The researcher used MANOVA, the result shows that, there was no difference in the statistics designation among the sample individuals as per the gender variable. According to the level variable there were no difference with statistics designation in left and integrated styles, where there were differences in the right style, in the level four.
In light of these findings, there are a number of reccomendations for students as well as teachers and scope for further research such as under taking a study to analyze the content of syllabuses taught in the first cycle of basic education with the objective of identifying the cerebral hemispheric style stressed in the syllabuses.
