A comparison between the learning styles of high achieving and low achieving pupils in a primary school
This study examines the learning style preferences of 126 lower primary students, 63 high achievers and 63 low achievers, in a neighbourhood school. It attempts to identify their learning styles and investigate whether significant differences exist between the learning styles of the two groups of st...
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| author | Lim, Amy Kin Kuen. |
| author2 | Cheng, Yuanshan |
| author_facet | Cheng, Yuanshan Lim, Amy Kin Kuen. |
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| description | This study examines the learning style preferences of 126 lower primary students, 63 high achievers and 63 low achievers, in a neighbourhood school. It attempts to identify their learning styles and investigate whether significant differences exist between the learning styles of the two groups of students.
A questionnaire inventory modified from the Learning Style Inventory: Primary (1991) by Janet Perrin was used to identify their learning style preferences.
The findings from this study suggest that high achievers and low achievers have similar learning style preferences. They like learning in a quiet, bright, and formally designed environment. They see themselves as responsible, persistent and self motivated learners. They disliked learning with adults. They prefer their learning to be minimally structured and dislike learning in the evenings.
It also suggests that learning styles discriminate between the two groups of learners. Overall, 8 out of the 18 elements were significantly different. They are temperature, learning with an adult, visual, auditory, tactual perceptual strengths, intake, mobility and time of the day. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/140942020-11-01T06:17:57Z A comparison between the learning styles of high achieving and low achieving pupils in a primary school Lim, Amy Kin Kuen. Cheng, Yuanshan National Institute of Education DRNTU::Social sciences::Education This study examines the learning style preferences of 126 lower primary students, 63 high achievers and 63 low achievers, in a neighbourhood school. It attempts to identify their learning styles and investigate whether significant differences exist between the learning styles of the two groups of students. A questionnaire inventory modified from the Learning Style Inventory: Primary (1991) by Janet Perrin was used to identify their learning style preferences. The findings from this study suggest that high achievers and low achievers have similar learning style preferences. They like learning in a quiet, bright, and formally designed environment. They see themselves as responsible, persistent and self motivated learners. They disliked learning with adults. They prefer their learning to be minimally structured and dislike learning in the evenings. It also suggests that learning styles discriminate between the two groups of learners. Overall, 8 out of the 18 elements were significantly different. They are temperature, learning with an adult, visual, auditory, tactual perceptual strengths, intake, mobility and time of the day. Master of Arts (Applied Psychology) 2008-10-20T11:24:40Z 2008-10-20T11:24:40Z 1999 1999 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10356/14094 en 102 p. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | DRNTU::Social sciences::Education Lim, Amy Kin Kuen. A comparison between the learning styles of high achieving and low achieving pupils in a primary school |
| title | A comparison between the learning styles of high achieving and low achieving pupils in a primary school |
| title_full | A comparison between the learning styles of high achieving and low achieving pupils in a primary school |
| title_fullStr | A comparison between the learning styles of high achieving and low achieving pupils in a primary school |
| title_full_unstemmed | A comparison between the learning styles of high achieving and low achieving pupils in a primary school |
| title_short | A comparison between the learning styles of high achieving and low achieving pupils in a primary school |
| title_sort | comparison between the learning styles of high achieving and low achieving pupils in a primary school |
| topic | DRNTU::Social sciences::Education |
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