Learning Styles
CHAPTER I
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Rationale Every person has its own uniqueness making everyone different from each other which means that in everything people do, they vary from each other. For the students, they learn in different ways as well as their capability to acquire knowledge. This situation refers to as “learning styles” which is defined as “the concept that individuals differ in regard to what mode of instruction or study is most effective for them” (Pashler, et.al., 2008, p. 105). This is similar to the students’ preference on his/her way of learning in a particular area. Various learning styles have been used by many students as their approach to attain information and to process this to learn. One model of learning styles is the Fleming’s VAK Model which is sometimes known as the VARK model. In an article published by Gable (2010) written by a writer named “nlee31”, the Fleming’s VAK Model was presented; the visual learning style (V), the auditory learning style (A) and the kinesthetic learning style. The visual learners are skillful at looking charts, graphs or any instructional visual material and they can apply it to their school projects. Auditory learners are skilled through listening with good memory and use of information. Lastly, kinesthetic learners learn best through application. Learning styles is known as a validation to determine that students perform in class and achieve something in different manners. As to their academic performance, these learning styles were used in all the subject areas. The students learn in a variety of way as a result of the teachers’ style of conveying information. Because of this, the students also have different performance in their academics such as in mathematics for example as to the use the Fleming’s VAK model, it was posted on the VARK official website by Neil Fleming (2010) that when the VAK questionnaire is used, it will result to a great difference across the different
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Rationale Every person has its own uniqueness making everyone different from each other which means that in everything people do, they vary from each other. For the students, they learn in different ways as well as their capability to acquire knowledge. This situation refers to as “learning styles” which is defined as “the concept that individuals differ in regard to what mode of instruction or study is most effective for them” (Pashler, et.al., 2008, p. 105). This is similar to the students’ preference on his/her way of learning in a particular area. Various learning styles have been used by many students as their approach to attain information and to process this to learn. One model of learning styles is the Fleming’s VAK Model which is sometimes known as the VARK model. In an article published by Gable (2010) written by a writer named “nlee31”, the Fleming’s VAK Model was presented; the visual learning style (V), the auditory learning style (A) and the kinesthetic learning style. The visual learners are skillful at looking charts, graphs or any instructional visual material and they can apply it to their school projects. Auditory learners are skilled through listening with good memory and use of information. Lastly, kinesthetic learners learn best through application. Learning styles is known as a validation to determine that students perform in class and achieve something in different manners. As to their academic performance, these learning styles were used in all the subject areas. The students learn in a variety of way as a result of the teachers’ style of conveying information. Because of this, the students also have different performance in their academics such as in mathematics for example as to the use the Fleming’s VAK model, it was posted on the VARK official website by Neil Fleming (2010) that when the VAK questionnaire is used, it will result to a great difference across the different