Learning Styles and Academic Performance of Students in Printed Modular Distance Learning

Abstract

This descriptive-comparative and correlational study examined the significant relationship between learning styles and the academic performance of 60 intermediate modular students of Lag-Asan Elementary School in 2021-2022. The statistical tools used in treating the data are the Frequency and Percentage Distribution, Mean and Standard deviation, and Chi-Square test of Association. An adapted survey questionnaire based on VARK learning styles version 8.0 was utilized during the reliability test and actual survey. The study revealed that there is a significant relationship between learning style and academic performance. The use of SLMs that are linked with the students’ preferred learning styles was found to improve academic achievement in the PMDL modality. Aside from the read/write learning style which is the most preferred by students based on sex and grade level, other learning styles should be catered to by providing VARK-based learning resources and MELC-based modular activities that support learning styles and accomplishment of activities of intermediate students in PMDL is produced as the major output of this research.