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The present study examines the problems that occur to the students and their concrete solutions in Technology Education to clarify how students' learning styles would affect their problem solving behaviors. After the class of "Machines" area was taught to the third year students at a junior high school, both the problems that occurred to them and the specific solutions were studied according to the students' learning styles. As a result, it is found that students with each learning style shows the differences in the specific solutions they took. The students with "Versatile and Deep Holist Type" applied solutions of "Enhancing awareness" more than the students with other two types as it was shown in the units of "Leg Production" and "Modification". On the other hand, the students with "Deep Serialist Type" were found that they didn't utilize solutions of "Modeling" as much as other students with other two types. This finding confirms that the "Deep Serialist Type" students have field-independent characteristic.

The present study examines the situation on fostering problem solving ability to clarify how students' learning styles affect it in Technology Education. Leaning styles are classified into three categories: "Versatile and Deep Holist Type", "Deep Serialist Type", and "Surface Type". Problem solving abilities are also classified into three structures: "Thinking Ability", "Affective Domain", and "Skills". As a result, characteristic tendency is found regarding the relation between students' learning style and their problem solving ability.