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An investigation into specific learning styles and preferences for related learning activities in a biology course
An investigation into specific learning styles and preferences for related learning activities in a biology course
| dc.contributor.author | Ong, Bessie | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-11-10T19:11:32Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-11-10T19:11:32Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | Items in this repository are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013-00-00 | |
| dc.description | Abstract: Students in the class learn in different ways, each adopting strategies that he has found to be successful in the context of learning. Overtime such strategies become habitual and develop into a learning style. A student with a specific learning style may like learning activities that correspond to his preferred strategies. The purpose of this study is to test several hypotheses pertaining to the association of a student’s specific learning style with his preferred learning activities. The participants were 56 students who were enrolled in a first level biology course. Students’ specific learning styles were identified, by a modified Koib Learning Style Inventory, to be diverging, assimilating, converging or accommodating. Students were then assigned to groups with diverse learning styles and experienced several class activities such as hands-on exercises, lectures and problem solving assignments on selected topics. At the end of the course students ranked the order of preference for each of the activities in each topic. The results supported the hypothesis that learning styles are associated with the corresponding learning activities when the scores for all topics were combined, but not so when each topic was analyzed separately. This indicated that students adopted different learning styles for different topics. | |
| dc.description | Full text access : Research & development Centre, Taylor’s University, Malaysia (e-mail: GTDLSRnD@taylors.edu.my) | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://irepo.taylors.edu.my/handle/123456789/477 | |
| dc.subject | Biology–Study and teaching (Higher) | |
| dc.subject | Teaching | |
| dc.title | An investigation into specific learning styles and preferences for related learning activities in a biology course | |
| dspace.entity.type | Research-Abstracts | |
| local.identifiers | vital:504 | |
| local.identifiers | valet-20140116-172355 | |
| local.language | English | |
| local.school | American Degree Transfer Program |