Learning Preferences among Grade 10 Students in St. Paul University Surigao: Basis for Learning Framework Design

Abstract

Saint Paul University Surigao has the main goal of providing a good quality of education. An education in which both school and students can benefit from it by upgrading teachers’ quality of teaching, designing curriculum, and the level of students’ skills to meet the global competencies. In this Covid-19 Pandemic, the education system has faced a great challenge which affects the learning styles of students. Knowing 'why' an activity matters because it is the first step in any individual's self-reflective process, their metacognition, and the development of their personal epistemologies (Atkinson, 2018). This study aims to develop a learning framework that can be used considering the learning preferences of incoming grade 11 students to help in creating activities that will suit their learning style. The study used the 16 Multiple Choice item VARK Questionnaire Version 8.01 ©2019 to identify students’ learning styles. This researcher used purposive random sampling in grade 10 students. The results of the study find that students have unimodal learning and most of them prefer to learn aurally as their highest learning styles in the learning classroom engagement.