HCU students and their Learning Styles

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HCU students and their Learning Styles

• Somsri Jansom
• Wednesday, August 27, 2003

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HCU students and their Learning Styles

• Background
• Objectives
• To survey the learning styles used by HCU
  students in order to arrange lesson plan to meet
  their preferences.
• Limitations
• Convenience Sampling
• Small group of subjects

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Subjects 59 first-year HCU students
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Subjects Sex
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Subjects Previous English Grades
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Instrument

• Perceptual Learning Style Preference Survey
  developed by Professor Joy Reid
• 30 items ( five of each)
• Visual 6, 10, 12, 24, 29 Auditory 1,
  7, 9, 17, 20
• Kinesthetic 2, 8, 15, 19, 26 Tactile 11, 14,
  16, 22, 25
• Group 3, 4, 5, 21, 23 Individual 13, 18, 27,
  28, 30

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Perceptual Learning Styles Preferences

• 1. Visual
• Learn well from seeing words. Remember and
  understand information better if you read them.
• 2. Auditory
• Learn well from hearing words. Benefit from
  hearing audiotapes, lectures, and class
  discussion.

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Perceptual Learning Styles Preferences

• 3. Kinesthetic
• Learn best by experience, by being involved
  physically in classroom. Remember when you
  actively participate in activities, field trips,
  and role-playing.
• 4. Tactile
• Learn best when you have the opportunity to do
  hands-on experiences with materials. Benefit
  from experiments in a lab, handling and building
  models.

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Perceptual Learning Styles Preferences

• 5. Group
• Learn more easily when you study with at least
  one other student.
• 6. Individual
• Learn best when you work alone. Remember
  information when you learn by yourself.

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Perceptual Learning Style Preference Survey
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Perceptual Learning Style Preference Survey

• Scoring
• E.g. Visual
• 6 ____
• 10 ____
• 12 ____
• 24 ____
• 29 ____
• Total _______ x 2 ________ Score

Score 38-50 Major Learning Style
Preferences Score 25-37 Minor Learning Style
Preferences Score 0-24 Negligible Learning
Styles
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Results Comparing Means
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Results Major, minor, or negligible?
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Results Comparing Sex
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Results Comparing Grades
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Results Pearson Correlation
Significant at the 0.05 level Significant at
the 0.01 level
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Conclusion

• Kinesthetic and Tactile are preferred by this
  group of students while Individual learning style
  is the least one.
• Female students like studying in groups more
  than males do, and male students prefer studying
  individually.
• Successful students prefer Kinesthetic, Tactile
  and Visual learning styles, while weak students
  use Visual, Auditory, and Group. Weak students
  score low in Kinesthetic and Tactile.

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Thank you for your attention.
Conclusion (2)

• Kinesthetic moderately correlate with tactile,
  while individual moderately correlate with
  visual. Group and Individual are negatively
  correlated.

Reference Reid, J.M.(1998). Understanding
Learning Styles in the Second
Language Classroom. New Jersey Prentice Hall
Regents.