Do Learning & Teaching Styles Affect Students Performance? An Empirical Study

Abstract

The ways in which students normally obtain, retain, and get back information are defined as the students’ learning style. Mismatches often occur between the learning styles of students in a Basic Statistics class and the teaching style of the instructor, with adverse effects on the quality of the students’ learning and on their attitudes toward the class and the subject. The purpose of this study was to determine whether or not congruency of learning and teaching styles improve students’ performance in my Basic Statistics class.

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“…Kazu (2009) explained that students learn differently due to many different cognitive learning processes, therefore Kazu asserts that all students should be accurately assessed in order to provide an adequate mode of teaching. Kamuche (2005) described that learning style is important but teaching style is equally important. For example, students performed better on a statistics test when their learning style was matched to a similar teaching style compared to unmatched students and teachers (Kamuche, 2005).…”

“…Kamuche (2005) described that learning style is important but teaching style is equally important. For example, students performed better on a statistics test when their learning style was matched to a similar teaching style compared to unmatched students and teachers (Kamuche, 2005). Assessing learning style and matching to a comparable teaching style may facilitate learning, but in large-scale educational environments like public school classrooms it becomes increasingly difficult to achieve.…”