Learning Style and its Impact among Junior Medical Laboratory Science Students’ Academic Performance and Engagement

This paper focused on determining the impact of learning style on academic performance and engagement. Using frequency, chi-square, correlation and regression analysis, the relationship and effect of learning style to student engagement and academic performance were examined among 102 regular junior Medical Laboratory Science students of Liceo de Cagayan University for the first semester of school year 2014-2015. The results revealed that the student-respondents preferred learning styles are: reflective over active, sensing over intuitive, visual over verbal and sequential over global. The results further revealed that student engagement, not academic performance, figured out prominently as the variable that bear on the learning style of the students. These findings support the need for review of procedures and structures of the College or the University in motivating students towards behavioral, cognitive and social engagement.

 

Keywords: learning style, student engagement, academic performance, medical laboratory science