The relationship between learning styles and teaching methodology with theudachievement of civil engineering studies at secondary technical school inudNegeri Sembilan

摘要

The purpose of this descriptive study was to survey the relation between students’s learningudstyle and teacher’s teaching methods which apply towards the achievements in CES subjectudin three Technical School in Negeri Sembilan. Respondent of the research involving 180udstudents and a questionnaire was used as research instrument. This questionnaire containedudtwo parts, which were Part A; seven questions related to background of respondents and PartudB containing 36 items related to 3 types of learning styles and 2 types of teaching methods.udThe acquired overall alpha value was 0.844 and possessed high trustworthiness questions.udData were analyzed using SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Science) software versionud15 to acquire frequency, percentage and mean that were later shown in table form. Acquiredudstudy findings showed that auditory learning style was the most dominant learning styleudwhich applied among the students whereas demonstration method was the most dominantudteaching method used among the teachers. In this study, it was discovered that no significantudrelation between visual and kinesthetic learning style with the achievements in CiviludEngineering Studies (CES) subject whereas there was a significant relation between auditoryudwith the subject achievements. For analysis of relation between learning styles and teachingudmethods there was a significant relation between both of them. This research suggest audfurther research to find the effectiveness of teacher’s teaching methods which must beudrequired to attain correct information and used it to solve the student’s achievementudproblems