An exploratory study of the relationship between learning styles and academic performance among students in different nursing programs

2014 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuh-Shiow Li ◽  
Wen-Pin Yu ◽  
Chin-Fang Liu ◽  
Sue-Heui Shieh ◽  
Bao-Huan Yang
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
Learning Styles ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Nursing Programs ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals The Relationship between Learning Styles and Academic Performance: Consistency among Multiple Assessment Methods in Psychology and Education Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 3341
Author(s):  
Jesús Maya ◽  
Juan F. Luesia ◽  
Javier Pérez-Padilla
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Academic Performance ◽  
Learning Styles ◽  
Primary Education ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Multiple Choice ◽  
Assessment Methods ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Education Students ◽  
The Relationship

Universities strive to ensure quality education focused on the diversity of the student body. According to experiential learning theory, students display different learning preferences. This study has a three-fold objective: to compare learning styles based on personal and educational variables, to analyze the association between learning styles, the level of academic performance, and consistency of performance in four assessment methods, and to examine the influence of learning dimensions in students with medium-high performance in the assessment methods. An interdisciplinary approach was designed involving 289 psychology, early childhood education and primary education students at two universities in Spain. The Learning Style Inventory was used to assess learning styles and dimensions. The assessment methods used in the developmental psychology course included the following question formats: multiple-choice, short answer, creation-elaboration and an elaboration question on the relationship between theory and practice. Univariate analysis, multivariate analysis, and binomial logistic models were computed. The results reveal Psychology students to be more assimilative (theoretical and abstract), while early childhood and primary education students were evenly distributed among styles and were more divergent and convergent (practical) in absolute terms. In addition, high scores in perception (abstract conceptualization) were associated with a high level of performance on the multiple-choice tests and the elaboration question on the relationship between theory and practice. Abstract conceptualization was also associated with medium-high performance in all assessment methods and this variable predicted consistent high performance, independent of the assessment method. This study highlights the importance of promoting abstract conceptualization. Recommendations for enhancing this learning dimension are presented.

scholarly journals The relationship between learning styles and academic performance in TURKISH physiotherapy students

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nursen İlçin ◽  
Murat Tomruk ◽  
Sevgi Sevi Yeşilyaprak ◽  
Didem Karadibak ◽  
Sema Savcı
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
Learning Styles ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Physiotherapy Students

scholarly journals Relationship between Learning Styles and Academic Performance among Virtual Nursing Students: A Cross-Sectional Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Noushin Kouhan ◽  
Maryam Janatolmakan ◽  
Mansour Rezaei ◽  
Alireza Khatony
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Learning Styles ◽  
Learning Style ◽  
Academic Failure ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Grade Point ◽  
The Relationship

Background. The lack of attention of nursing professors to students’ learning styles can cause academic failure. The results of studies on the relationship between students’ learning style and academic achievement are contradictory. Therefore, this study was designed to investigate the relationship between VARK learning styles and academic performance among virtual nursing students. Methods. In this cross-sectional study, 237 virtual nursing students were enrolled by the convenience sampling method. The VARK learning styles questionnaire was used for data collection. The basis for determining academic performance was the grade point average(s) (GPA) of the previous semester(s). Students were divided into two groups based on their GPA, including strong (GPA ≥15) and weak (GPA ≤14.99) groups. Results. In both strong and weak groups, most of the subjects were unimodal (with a frequency of 92.9% and 78.5%, respectively), and the rest were multimodal. The most common learning styles in strong and weak students were kinesthetic (57.1%) and auditory (37.2%), respectively. The results of chi-square test did not show statistically significant differences between learning styles and academic performance of strong and weak students. Conclusion. There was no significant relationship between the dominant learning styles and academic performance of strong and weak students. However, nursing professors need to adapt their teaching methods to the students’ learning styles. More studies are recommended to shed more light on this area of research.

scholarly journals The relationship between Personality Traits, Learning Styles and Academic Performance of E-Learners

Open Praxis ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nabia Luqman Siddiquei ◽  
Dr Ruhi Khalid
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
Learning Styles ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Learning Style ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Grade Point ◽  
E Learning ◽  
The Relationship

The rapid growth of e-learning has greatly influenced the educational system across the globe. Personality traits and learning styles are both likely to play considerable roles in influencing academic achievement of e-learners. Based on this foundation, a study was designed that attempts to establish the missing links between personality traits, learning styles, and academic performance of students enrolled in various e-learning courses. University students (N=144) completed the Big Five Inventory (BFI), Index of Learning Style (ILS) and reported their grade point average (GPA). One of the Big Five traits i.e. extraversion was positively related with all four learning styles whereas neuroticism was negatively related with all four learning styles. It has also been revealed that GPA was positively correlated with three personality traits and was negatively correlated with neuroticism. Similarly GPA was positively correlated with three learning styles. Finally, there were no significant differences in learning styles and personality traits of e-learners in terms of gender. Implications of these results are expected to help academics, managers, and policy makers for implementation of future e-learning strategies in Pakistan.

scholarly journals Learning styles and academic performance in the operational research subject of students of the IV cycle of the Faculty of Administrative Sciences of the National

Llamkasun ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nelly Aurelia Gonzales Agama ◽  
Sara Hermelinda Gonzales Agama ◽  
Juan Francisco Bazán Baca ◽  
Carlos Alberto Choquehuanca Saldarriaga
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
Learning Styles ◽  
Learning Style ◽  
Operational Research ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Research Subject ◽  
Visual Style ◽  
Conceptual Performance ◽  
Degree Of Association ◽  
The Relationship

The objective of the research has been to determine the relationship that exists between learning styles and academic performance in the Operational Research course of students of the IV cycle of FCAUNAC. In this sense, a questionnaire has been applied to 80 students to determine their learning styles; an exam to measure conceptual performance and another to measure procedural performance; to measure attitudinal performance, a checklist has been applied. Once obtained, the data were organized in a database, which allowed us to describe their behavior and infer the degree of association between the research variables, for which we used the Pearson correlation coefficient, the analysis of variance and Tukey's test. SPSS and Minitab were used for the calculations. The result of the research is that the more orientation towards a learning style the students obtain a higher academic performance and that there are no significant differences in the average performance of the students if we compare each type of performance with the different styles, but this does not occur the same if we make a comparison of academic performance with styles, in which case there is a superiority in visual style.

scholarly journals Learning styles and teaching styles determine students’ academic performances

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 610
Author(s):  
Nithya Dewi Subramaniam Chetty ◽  
Lina Handayani ◽  
Noor Azida Binti Sahabudin ◽  
Zuraina Ali ◽  
Norhasyimah Hamzah ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
Learning Styles ◽  
Learning Style ◽  
Teaching Style ◽  
Visual Learning ◽  
Teaching Styles ◽  
Learning Preferences ◽  
Programming Technique ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
The Relationship

<span>Individuals learn in different ways using several learning styles, but lecturers may not always share material and learning experiences that match students’ learning preferences. Mismatches between learning and teaching styles can lead to disappointment with students are taking, and lead to underperformance among them. The aim of this study is to identify the learning styles of the students enrolled in Universiti Malaysia Pahang who were registered in Programming Technique course and to investigate the relationship between students’ learning styles and teachers’ teaching styles. Five lecturers and 251 students were involved in the study as participants and. Data from students were collected using Leonard, Enid’s VAK Learning Style Survey. Meanwhile, the teaching styles of the lecturers were identified using Grasha and Reichmann’s Teaching Style Survey. The findings revealed that majority of the student’s preferred visual learning style. The result also shows that the lecturers’ teaching styles give an impact towards the <br /> students’ academic performance. From this study, we can conclude that teaching styles have significant impacts on students’ learning styles and academic performances.</span>

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