Learning Styles and Academic Achievement Among University Students

Norazlan bin Annual, Muhammad Faizal bin Samat, Zatul Himmah bte Abd. Karim, Norhafiza Hashim

2017

Abstract

A student’s learning style preference refers to the way they respond to stimuli in a learning context, and to their characteristics way of acquiring and using information. Each student has his/her own specific learning styles that may influence his academic achievements and students in any course will place a variety of different interpretations onto their lessons. This study aimed to find out the relationship between learning styles and academic performance; to identify the significant influence between learning styles and academic performance; and to determine the mean difference between male and female learning preferences. This study was carried out in UiTM Cawangan Kelantan, UiTM Cawangan Terengganu and UiTM Cawangan Pahang (East Zone of Malaysia) respectively where a total of 400 first year’s students from the Faculty of Business and Management, Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) were randomly selected as sample of this study. The result of analyses of variance shows that there is a statistically significant difference in the academic achievement of these students that correspond to the four learning styles developed by David Kolbs. It was found and concluded that converging learning style scored the highest percentage among the respondents towards their academic performance. There was a relationship between students’ learning styles that relate to all four learning styles with academic performance. However, converging and accommodating learning styles have moderate relationships with academic performance. In the meantime, the study hypothesized that assimilating and diverging learning styles have weak relationships with academic performance. The result also showed that there was no significant difference between gender and academic performance.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

bin Annual N., Faizal bin Samat M., Himmah bte Abd. Karim Z. and Hashim N. (2017). Learning Styles and Academic Achievement Among University Students.In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Economic Education and Entrepreneurship - Volume 1: ICEEE, ISBN 978-989-758-308-7, pages 520-526. DOI: 10.5220/0006888905200526

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceee17,
author={Norazlan bin Annual and Muhammad Faizal bin Samat and Zatul Himmah bte Abd. Karim and Norhafiza Hashim},
title={Learning Styles and Academic Achievement Among University Students},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Economic Education and Entrepreneurship - Volume 1: ICEEE,},
year={2017},
pages={520-526},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006888905200526},
isbn={978-989-758-308-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Economic Education and Entrepreneurship - Volume 1: ICEEE,
TI - Learning Styles and Academic Achievement Among University Students
SN - 978-989-758-308-7
AU - bin Annual N.
AU - Faizal bin Samat M.
AU - Himmah bte Abd. Karim Z.
AU - Hashim N.
PY - 2017
SP - 520
EP - 526
DO - 10.5220/0006888905200526