creators_name: Syed Jamal Abdul Nasir Syed Mohamad, creators_name: Ahmad Saat, creators_name: Daud Mohamad, creators_id: syedjamal145@salam.uitm.edu.my creators_id: ahmad183@salam.uitm.edu.my creators_id: daud@tmsk.uitm.edu.my type: conference_item datestamp: 2008-07-03 03:30:31 lastmod: 2008-10-06 01:32:41 metadata_visibility: show corp_creators: Universiti Teknologi MARA. Institute of Education Development corp_creators: Universiti Teknologi MARA,. INTEC corp_creators: Universiti Teknologi MARA. FTMSK title: An Analysis of Learning Styles of Distance Learners at Institute of Education Development, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia ispublished: unpub subjects: L full_text_status: public pres_type: paper keywords: learning styles, distance learners abstract: Presently, no information could be obtained on the learning styles of distance learners as it has not been studied before. A study was carried out to identify the learning styles of distance learners at the Institute of Education Development, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. Felder’s Learning Styles Index (LSI) was used in the study. Results of the study were used to make comparison and correlation analyses between learning styles and academic achievement, programme of studies, gender and income. One hundred and sixty two students responded to the online questionnaire. The study showed that 35.5% students preferred visual learning style followed by 29.6% sensory, 14.2% active, 0%verbal and 2.5% intuitive. The male students were found dominant in visual learning style as compared to the females who were sensory dominant. The students who were majors in banking tended towards sensory style as compared to finance and business studies students who were inclined towards visual style. While the mass communication and public administration students dominated in visual and sensory styles. The higher income students preferred more visual style as compared to the middle income who were dominant in both visual and sensory. The higher achievers were found to be better disposed towards visual as compared to low achievers who were sensory dominant in style. The learning styles were not significantly different between genders, programme of studies and semesters. It was also found that there was no significant relationship between learning styles and academic achievement. This paper iscusses in detail the implications of the various earning styles on studentsof distance mode of education. date: 2005 date_type: submitted pagerange: 7p. event_title: ICDE International Conference event_location: New Delhi, India event_dates: 19 -23 November 2005 event_type: conference refereed: TRUE referencetext: Ahmad Saat, Jamaludin Ahmad and Syed Jamal Abdul Nasir (2001). Student’s Learning Styles: A Case Study of UiTM Pahang. 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Proceeding of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education, Nashville, Tenesse. citation: Syed Jamal Abdul Nasir Syed Mohamad, and Ahmad Saat, and Daud Mohamad, (2005) An Analysis of Learning Styles of Distance Learners at Institute of Education Development, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. In: ICDE International Conference, 19 -23 November 2005, New Delhi, India. (Unpublished) document_url: http://myais.fsktm.um.edu.my/2273/1/PaperLearningStyle.pdf