MANAGEMENT SCIENCE DEPARTMENT

MGT212- RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

PROJECT TASK 2
LITERATURE REVIEW ANNOTATION
Group members:
(Name – ID)
Research Title: The Effect of Teaching Styles on Students’ Performance

Article number: 1 By:

Reference (APA style)
What is the keywords of this article?
What is the primary research question or Teaching and learning styles play a crucial
thesis of this article?
What are the characteristics of the
population studied? How many people,
ages, genders, race/ethnicity/nationality,
professions, etc.? How were these people
selected?
What research method(s) was employed
by the researchers? Was this appropriate
for the population and the research
question? Were there limitations to this
method?
What were the primary findings of the There is an impact on academic
Chetty, N., Handayani, L., Sahabudin, N., Ali, (Chetty et al.,
Z., Hamzah, N., Rahman, N., & Kasim, S. 2019)
(2019). Learning styles and teaching styles
determine students’ academic
performances. International Journal Of
Evaluation And Research In Education
(IJERE), 8, 610.
Academic performance
Learning style preference
Students
Teaching style preference
role in this academic world.
 The characteristics of the
population studied is
undergraduates’ students.
 There were 251 students included in
the research.
 There were different race, ethnicity,
and nationality included in the
research.
 These people were selected based
on their educational status.
 The quantitative research approach
includes the collection and analysis
of numerical data
 Yes! It was appropriate
 Yes! study was restricted to only
Programming technique students
and lecturers which did not involve
all other subject lecturers and
students.

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 research? performance among students and
lecturers if there is a mismatch occurred
between the learning style and teaching
style.

Critique this article, discuss method, The quantitative research approach

findings, analysis, writing style, or other includes the collection and analysis of
elements of the research project. numerical data to describe
and generalize conditions, investigate
relationships, and study the cause-effect
of phenomena. The sample for
this study was 251 undergraduates’
students from Faculty of Computing,
UMP who have taken the Programming
Techniques subject and five lecturers.

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 Article number: 2 By:
Reference (APA style) Ganyaupfu, E. (2013). Teaching Methods and (Ganyaupfu,
Students’ Academic Performance. International 2013)
Journal Of Humanities And Social Science
Invention, 2(9), 29-35.
What is the keywords of this article? teacher-centered,
student-centered,
teacher-student interactive and performance
What is the primary research question or The primary objective of this study was to
thesis of this article? investigate whether there are significant
differences between the effectiveness of
different teaching methods on students’
academic performance.
What are the characteristics of the The population for this study was
population studied? How many people, undergraduate students from three fields of
ages, genders, race/ethnicity/nationality, specialization; namely Human Resource
professions, etc.? How were these people Management (HRM), Accounting (ACC)
and Marketing Management (MM). The
selected?
students fall under the Department of
Economic and Business Sciences; Kempton
Park (Higher Education and Training)
Campus; PC Training & Business College;
South Africa. The sample consisted of one
hundred and nine (n=109) students; from
which 22.9% (n=25) were males and 77.1%
(n=84) were females.
What research method(s) was employed  Data collection, treatment of the
by the researchers? Was this appropriate experiment and statistical
for the population and the research analytical techniques applied in
question? Were there limitations to this the study.
method?  Yes!
 No! there were not limitations
What were the primary findings of the The results reveal that combining both
research? teacher-centered and student-centered
teaching methods in teaching learners is
the most effective approach that
produces best student results.
Critique this article, discuss method, The outcome variable was students’
findings, analysis, writing style, or other performance assessment test scores
elements of the research project. generated from the internal test prepared
by the lecturer.

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 Article number: 3 By:
Reference (APA style) Kamuche, F. (2011). Do Learning & (Kamuche,
Teaching Styles Affect Students 2011)
Performance? An Empirical Study. Journal
Of Business & Economics Research
(JBER), 3(9). doi: 10.19030/jber.v3i9.2806
What is the keywords of this article? Learning Styles
Teaching Styles
Student Performance
What is the primary research question or Students whose learning styles are similar
thesis of this article? to instructor’s teaching style will perform
significantly better on
tests.
What are the characteristics of the The sample in this study is the students in
population studied? How many people, the investigator’s classes over three
ages, genders, race/ethnicity/nationality, academic years. The typical enrollment in
professions, etc.? How were these people the classes was thirty-five students per
section with two or more section being
selected?
taught each semester. The total enrollments
in the Basic Statistics courses each year
ranged from 105 in the third year to 165 in
the first year. The enrollment in the second
year was 130. The total enrollment for the
Morehouse College was approximately
3000 students during the years of this study.
What research method(s) was employed  The quantitative research approach
by the researchers? Was this appropriate includes the collection and analysis
for the population and the research of numerical data.
question? Were there limitations to this  Yes!
method?  No!

What were the primary findings of the H1: Relationship between students
research? whose learning style matches the
instructor’s teaching styles and
performance was .89.
H2: Relationship between students
whose learning style matches the
instructor’s teaching styles and grade
earned in the course was .78.
Relationship between test performance
and earned in the course was .75.
The results of this study were significant
for all the hypotheses questions at the .
01 level.
Critique this article, discuss method, findings of this study were based on a
findings, analysis, writing style, or other sample of students in statistics courses.
elements of the research project. The quantitative nature of these courses
is such that they lend themselves to
objective tests with precise answers.
Such studies could present substantial
challenges when the subjects in question
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 are more abstract and tests are more
subjective. Issues such as consistency
in grading of subjective tests and
measuring learning needed to be
carefully considered in the research
design.

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 Article number: 4 By:
Reference (APA style) Shaari, A., Yusoff, N., Ghazali, I., Osman, (Shaari,
R., & Dzahir, N. (2014). The Relationship Yusoff,
between Lecturers' Teaching Style and Ghazali,
Students' Academic Engagement. Procedia Osman &
- Social And Behavioral Sciences, 118, 10- Dzahir, 2014)
20. doi: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.02.002

What is the keywords of this article? Teaching Style;

Academic Engagement;
Lecturers and Students.
What is the primary research question or The primary thesis of this article is to
thesis of this article? determine the relationship between the
lecturers’ teaching styles and students’
engagement.
What are the characteristics of the The target population in this study are
population studied? How many people, lecturers and students of Universiti Utara
ages, genders, race/ethnicity/nationality, Malaysia. A total of 226 questionnaires
professions, etc.? How were these people were collected. 80% of the respondents
were under 24 years of age.
selected?
What research method(s) was employed  The quantitative research approach
by the researchers? Was this appropriate includes the collection and analysis
for the population and the research of numerical data.
question? Were there limitations to this  Yes!
method?  No!
What were the primary findings of the The primary findings of this article were
research? the types of teaching styles used by
lecturers in UUM and how these
teaching styles have implications on
students’ engagement.
Critique this article, discuss method, The five teaching styles were measured
findings, analysis, writing style, or other by the responses of the students to the
elements of the research project. questionnaire. Half of the respondents
like to give their opinion in class, but
the majority of the respondents regularly
involve in presentation in front of the
class.

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