Abstract
<p>A survey was conducted to study the preferred learning strategies; that is, surface learning or deep learning of undergraduate and graduate male and female students and the impact of the preferred strategy on their academic performance. Both learning strategies help university students to get good scores in their examinations to meet the demands of industry in workforce. Quantitative research method was used to determine the impact of learning strategy on academic achievements. The R-SPQ2F questionnaire was sent to 103 students through Google forms and hard copies through snowball sampling technique. The results show that rote learning and academic performance are inversely related to each other. In high achievers, deep learning is significant as compared to low achievers. Furthermore, comparative analysis of learning styles<br />on males and females showed that both preferred deep learning strategy equally. Learning strategy is not related to education level of students because there is no difference among preferred learning strategies of graduate and undergraduate students.</p>
Highlights
The approaches to learning play a significant role in determining the outcomes of educational endeavors (Hasnoor, Ahmad, & Nordin, 2013).There are three essential elements that influence learning of students: (a) students, (b) course, and (c) teaching strategies (Mayya, Rao, & Ramnarayana, 2004)
Despite all the scientifically proved evidences about the superiority of deep learning strategy, at some instances surface learning approach is necessary for the students
These findings oppose the findings of Trig well and Prosser (1991), according to which deep learning approach does not lead to higher grades in academics, but it does lead to high quality of learning
Summary
The approaches to learning play a significant role in determining the outcomes of educational endeavors (Hasnoor, Ahmad, & Nordin, 2013).There are three essential elements that influence learning of students: (a) students, (b) course, and (c) teaching strategies (Mayya, Rao, & Ramnarayana, 2004). Each of the elements has an impact on students’ adopted approach to learning (Hasnoor, Ahmad, & Nordin, 2013).Teaching and course produce a variety of environments for students and to cope with pressure they adopt learning strategy according to the situation (Hasnoor, Ahmad, & Nordin, 2013).There are many factors that promote surface leaning strategy among students. Surface approach is memorizing information without understanding the deeper knowledge, known as rote learning; whereas in deep approach,the students involve themselves in the study process to grasp the deeper understanding of the content (Duff, Boyle, Dunleavy, & Ferguson, 2003)
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