Learning Styles of Engineering Students: A Case of Islamic University of Technology

Tawheed, Kasiita

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dc.contributor.author	Tawheed, Kasiita
dc.date.accessioned	2022-03-28T06:32:25Z
dc.date.available	2022-03-28T06:32:25Z
dc.date.issued	2021-03-30
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dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1296
dc.description	Supervised by Prof. Dr. Md. Faruque A. Haolader, Co-supervisor, Mr. Hamisi Ramadhan Mubarak, Department of Technical and Vocational Education(TVE), Islamic University of Technology (IUT) Dhaka-Bangladesh.	en_US
dc.description.abstract	Islamic University of Technology (IUT), admits students from various countries with a diverse educational background. There has also been an effort to recruit female students in the university since 2016/17 whose number increases year by year. This has brought up a further challenge for teachers adopting to various teaching methods that will suit the different learning styles of these students. In addition, IUT offers both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. Courses at these levels are often taught by same teachers. This diversity of the programme offers teachers a challenge with whether to deploy the same method of teaching in both undergraduate and postgraduate. Therefore, this study aims to enhance the effectiveness of teaching-learning through exploring different learning styles and how they differ among undergraduates and postgraduate engineering students at IUT. A quantitative research approach was employed in conducting the study. The researcher adopted and customized the VARK questionnaire which was administered to 340 students to determine their preferred modes of learning. After analysis of the obtained raw data from the participants, the unimodal learning style was found to be dominant over the multimodal learning style. Among the unimodal learning style, kinesthetic was the most preferred mode of learning. The findings also revealed that there was a difference in learning style preference according to gender. The percentage of the kinesthetic scores was much higher in males than in the females whereas in the multimodal learning style, the percentage of the read/write-kinesthetic score was much higher in females than in the males. There was no significant difference found between the learning styles of the undergraduate and postgraduate students of IUT.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Department of Technical and Vocational Education (TVE), Islamic University of Technology (IUT)	en_US
dc.subject	Learning styles, Engineering, undergraduate and postgraduate, IUT	en_US
dc.title	Learning Styles of Engineering Students: A Case of Islamic University of Technology	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US