Gender and faculty relation to VAK learning style preferences among technical students

The ability to understand student learning styles can increase the effectiveness of two ways communication in transferring knowledge between students and lecturers. It also will develop students to be effective problem solver, and aiding them to increase their focus on an attentive learner. Students utilize all of their senses to process information, however they seem to have preferences to optimize learning ability and produce their best outcome. The purpose of this study is to identify technical students' preferred learning styles and to examine the relation between students' learning styles with gender and faculty. A sample of 278 technical students from one university in Melaka was selected in this study. A stratified random sampling was used to select the sample of this study and the VAK questionnaire was used as research instrument. The data were analyzed using descriptive and chi square test. The findings reveal that kinesthetic learning style was the most dominant learning style among university technical students. Gender does significance related to students' learning style, meanwhile faculty does not significance related to students' learning style.