The Vocational High School Teachers ‘Awareness Level and Implementation of the Students’ Learning Style Assessment

Mashoedah Mashoedah,Herman Dwi Surjono,Martin Hartmann,Zamroni Zamroni

doi:10.21831/jptk.v24i1.17722

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Abstract

As a reflection of teachers’ awareness of the students’ learning styles, teachers are required to have a good understanding of how the learning materials will be delivered to them through the teaching method and media, which are appropriate for their preferences. However, the uniqueness of learners’ learning styles has not become an important consideration for most of teachers. This study was aimed at finding out, to what extent vocational high school teachers were aware of the students’ learning styles. The data were collected through a survey and analyzed with the descriptive quantitative analysis. The results revealed that most of the respondents with the percentage of 65.7% (n=67) do not know the term of learning styles. Most of the respondents with the percentage of 77.6% do not assess the students’ learning styles. Although most of the respondents do not assess the students’ learning styles, the aspects of assessing the learning styles, using the instructional media appropriate with the students’ learning styles, and care about the students’ preferences in learning were categorized as good with the percentage of 43.3%, 71.6%, and 56.7% respectively. The overall of the vocational high school teachers’ awareness level of the students’ learning styles is categorized as good with the percentage of 76.1%.

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Individuals have their own way of learning called learning styles
As a reflection of teachers’ awareness of the students’ learning styles, teachers are required to have a good understanding of how the learning materials will be delivered to them through the teaching method and media, which are appropriate for their preferences
The respondents who come from the Electronics Department, the Electrical Department, and the Computer Department are 31 or 46.3%, 15 or 22.4%, and 21 or 31.3% respectively

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Individuals have their own way of learning called learning styles. Learning styles refer to the ways people behave and feel while they learn. It is mentioned that a learning style is an innate pattern of an individual or habits of obtaining and processing information in the learning situation. The core concept of learning styles is that every individual has various ways of learning (James & Gardner, 1995). A learning style is defined as a particular way in which an individual learns, a mode of learning – an individual’s preferred or best manner(s) in which to think, process information and demonstrate learning (Pritchard, 2009). According to Kolb & Goldman (1973), everyone can uniquely develop learning styles, which have strengths and weaknesses

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