DO STUDENTS WHO PREFER TO LEARN ALONE ACHIEVE BETTER THAN STUDENTS WHO PREFER TO LEARN WITH PEERS

This study examined the achievement of elementary school students when their strong preferences for learning alone or learning with peers we re identified and they were allowed to choose whether to learn alone o r with peers in each of five lessons. The results yielded by ANCOVA re vealed that the students who were identified as strongly preferring to learn alone achieved significantly higher mean lesson-test scores tha n students identified as strongly preferring to learn with peers. Neit her students identified as strongly preferring to learn alone; nor stu dents identified as strongly preferring to learn with peers achieved s ignificantly higher when they opted to learn through methods congruent with their preference.