The Learning Styles of Grade 12 Senior High School Students of Emiliano Tria Tirona Memorial National High School A.Y 2018-2019

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Learning style is a way in each individual learner begins to concentrate, prove, absorb, and retain new and difficult information. Students prefer different learning environment, learning modalities, and learning styles because they exhibit unique personalities, talents and weaknesses. They also have different interest, inclinations and learning styles. This study refers to the learning styles of the Grade 12 Students of Emiliano Tria Tirona Memorial National High School in the manner where they are most comfortable for easy understanding of their lessons particularly in visual, auditory, and haptic style.

METHODS

This study used the descriptive research design. Descriptive method was used to describe the personal profile of the respondents and their learning styles. The instrument used in gathering data was a questionnaire made of two sets. Part I deals with the personal profile of the respondents while Part II deals with the learning styles of the respondents. Data gathered were tabulated, collected, and interpreted using the weighted mean.

RESULTS

From the weighted mean of the 100 respondents, the result of the test shows that the most used learning style of the selected Grade 12 students is auditory as it scored 3.43. The second most used learning style is Visual having 3.36 mean and then Haptic with the mean of 3.03.

DISCUSSIONS

The results show that the most used learning style of the selected Grade 12 students is auditory as first and the second one is visual. Therefore, learning tasks can then be designed using preferred learning styles of the students. In this way, learning could be facilitated in a way that students could easily express themselves.