Learning Style of Forst-Year Biology College Students in State Universitas of Padang

Yogica, Relsas and Ristiono, Ristiono (2015) Learning Style of Forst-Year Biology College Students in State Universitas of Padang. In: ICOMSET, 2015, Padang.

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Abstract

At the beginning of the learning process in college, one of the things that must be understood by a lecturers is identifying student’s learning styles. Basic knowledge is needed about condition of the student in order to achieve instructional goals. By knowing the learning styles of students, lecturers can design techniques and methods to make an effective lecture time, to open the opportunity to make learning productive more, as well as to design appropriate approach for each activity. For students, this research will be useful to know whether learning method that they use is accordance with their learning styles, also to open some opportunities to change their learning habits, it can also be a reference for what types of careers corresponding roughly to live. By understanding the importance of basic knowledge about the learning styles, researcher have described the learning styles of freshmen year in Department of Biology, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, State University of Padang. Of the 177 students who became the object of research, note 96 (54.23%) of them are visual learners. 58 (32.76%) of them are students who have audio style. The rest numbering 23 people (12.99%) have a kinesthetic learning style. These results provide information to faculty and students to use variety methods and media during the lecture time.

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