Open AccessDo Learning & Teaching Styles Affect Students Performance? An Empirical Study
Author(s) -
Felix U. Kamuche
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of business and economics research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2157-8893
pISSN - 1542-4448
DOI - 10.19030/jber.v3i9.2806
Subject(s) - learning styles , class (philosophy) , affect (linguistics) , style (visual arts) , mathematics education , psychology , quality (philosophy) , cognitive style , computer science , cognition , artificial intelligence , communication , archaeology , epistemology , philosophy , neuroscience , history
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.