LEARNING STYLES OF STUDENTS

I. Introduction and Rationale

All students are created equally and differently. Learning styles have a big
contribution to the academic performance of the students. Learning style speaks on
how students learn differently, absorbs and comprehend the topic and how would
they react and cope up with every lessons and situation given to them.

Each students has different learning styles capability. According to the

Multiple INTELLIGENCE (IM) theory of Gardner states that there are seven different
ways of learning anything, and therefore there are “seven intelligences”:
bodily/kinaesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, logical/mathematical,
music/rhythmic, verbal/linguistic and visual spatial. Every styles affects and had an
effects on the potential of every students and has an impact on their academic
performance, it is believed that the children all over the world have their own
individual variations in modes of perceiving, remembering and thinking ways of
taking in, storing, transforming and solving problems (Efiong, 2005). Each learning
styles may affect and have an effect on the learning of the students inside the four
corners of their classroom. It may also be the guide on how they will learn. Learning
styles are not differences of ability but rather preferences for processing certain
information (D T. Willingham, E M. Hughes).

Ubihan High School is an integrated school combined with Junior and Senior
High School, with one hundred seventy (170) learners. Junior High School with 35
Grade 7, 38 Grade 8, 25 Grade 9 and 43 Grade 10 students, on the other hand Senior
High School with General Academic Strand has 12 students in Grade 11 and 23
students in Grade 12 that will be cover by this study.

Awareness of the individual learning styles can help them maximize his/her
potential in their academic performance. Teachers on the other hand must be able to
know and understand well the different learning style and able to have an effective
teaching strategy for each styles and to boost learner’s potentials as well.
 This is why the researcher conduct this study on different learning styles of
Students in Ubihan High School. The researcher would like to determine what kind of
learning styles the students have so that the teachers would be able to adjust in
every learners styles and able to execute different strategies as well as instructional
materials that will fit with each learning styles of every students and lastly, to see
the impact of each learning style on the academic performance of the students.