The Effects of Various Modes of School Formality Culture and Student Learning Style with Secondary School Students Academic’s Achievements

Azizi Yahaya,Noordin Yahaya,Shahrin Hashim,Jamaludin Ramli,Zurihanmi Zakariya

doi:10.5539/ijps.v2n1p96

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The main purpose of this research is to identify the effects of various modes of formal school culture and student’s learning styles with academic achievement. The sample consists of 234 students from five secondary schools in Pontian, Johor. The sampling has been done using the cluster on cluster random sampling method. The pilot study was done in order to determine the reliability and suitability of the questionnaires. Meanwhile Cronbach Alpha was used to determine the internal consistency of the questionnaires. The reliability value of Cronbach Alpha for the whole set of questionnaires used was 0.953. The questionnaire for formal school culture was adapted and modified from climate or culture in formal school form constructed by Curriculum Development Centre (1988). The questionnaire for student’s learning styles was adapted and modified from Barbe Modality Index questionnaire that was created by Barbe (1985). Descriptive statistics sush as frequency, mean and standard deviation were used to analyse the dominant aspects of formal school culture and student’s learning styles and to analyse student’s academic achievement. The inferential statistics such as Pearson correlations were used at significant level 0.05 to analyze the relationship between formal school culture and student’s learning styles with academic achievement. In addition, t-test was used to analyze the difference between formal school culture and student’s learning styles toward school location. The findings shows that the dominant aspect of formal school culture was social and the dominant aspect of students’ learning style was visual. Pearson correlation analysis showed that there was significant relationship between formal school cultures with academic achievement. Moreover, there was significant relationship between student’s learning style with academic achievement. Therefore, suggestions were made in this study. The study suggested that teacher and student should identify formal school culture and student’s learning styles, so that, student can increase their academic performance. (Keywords: formal school culture, student’s learning styles, academic achievement)

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Zurihanmi Zakariya Ministry of Youth and Sport, PutraJaya, Malaysia Abstract The main purpose of this research is to identify the effects of various modes of formal school culture and student’s learning styles with academic achievement
Learning process has becoming more complex to students who sit for Malaysian Certificate of Education (MCE) and Higher School Certificate (HSC) where results of both examinations can give big impacts to student’s futures
Questions related to learning styles picked and adapted from Barbe Learning Styles (1987)

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Zurihanmi Zakariya Ministry of Youth and Sport, PutraJaya, Malaysia Abstract The main purpose of this research is to identify the effects of various modes of formal school culture and student’s learning styles with academic achievement. The study suggested that teacher and student should identify formal school culture and student’s learning styles, so that, student can increase their academic performance. According to Mohd Salleh (1997), in order to fulfill school formality cultural, teachers play very important roles in understanding long term and short term objectives. According to Ee (1994), Education in Malaysia is on-going efforts towards further developing the potential of individuals in a holistic and integrated manner, so as to produce individuals who are intellectually, spiritually, emotionally and physically balanced and harmonic, based on a firm belief in and devotion to God. Commonly there is studies shown that students performance influenced by present facilities. It can be note that school formality culture based on physical, social and knowledge culture play very important roles in affecting student’s academic performance. According to Azizi Yahaya(2005), in effort to have meaningful learning process, teachers are compulsory to update their skills and knowledge and mastering their students learning style so they can make a better strategic planning

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