[논문]An Investigation of the Learning Styles of South Korean Business Students

Naik, Bijayananda; Girish, V.G.

문제 정의

Recently, Naik (2009) investigated the learning styles of business students in an American university using the Felder-Silverman model and found that majority of the business students prefer sensing, visual, active, and sequential learning styles. As mentioned earlier, Felder-Silverman Learning Style Model was also used in this research to investigate the learning styles of South Korean business stu- dents enrolled in a university in their home country. The next section briefly describes the theoretical basis of the Felder- Silverman Learning Style Model.
Since a large number of Asian international students enroll every year in American universities, an understanding of their learning styles is expected to help American instructors meet the instructional needs of these students better. Furthermore, since this research investigates South Korean students in a South Korean university, the findings of this research would help instructors at South Korean institutions of higher education to achieve a better match between learning and teaching styles.
The primary objective of this research is to investigate the distribution of learning styles of South Korean business students using the Index of Learning Styles (ILS) instrument based on the Felder-Silverman Learning Style Model (Felder 1996). A convenience sample of 125 business students at an institution of higher education in South Korea was surveyed in this research during the period March to June of 2011.
This research also concludes that no special consideration of the gender difference is needed in developing appropriate teaching methods for business students. Further research of learning styles of business students from different countries is likely to show commonality and differences in the learning styles of business students across the globe.
A convenience sample of 125 business students at an institution of higher education in South Korea was surveyed in this research during the period March to June of 2011. This research is the first in a series of future studies planned by the authors that will contribute to the current understanding of learning styles of students from Asian countries and cultures. Since a large number of Asian international students enroll every year in American universities, an understanding of their learning styles is expected to help American instructors meet the instructional needs of these students better.

가설 설정

H0: The learning style preferences are independent of gender difference.
Ha: The learning style preferences are not independent of gender difference.

제안 방법

However, this preliminary research is limited in its scope in the sense that the survey data was collected for a sample size of only 125 students from only one institution during one semester. Extensive future research is necessary for validating, refining, and generalizing the results obtained in this research. The authors plan to collaborate with other institutions of higher learning in South Korea to obtain data from a more diverse student population in South Korea and enlarge the sample size in the next step of this research.
The ILS instrument does not include any demographic question within itself. Since the secondary objective of this research was to examine whether learning style distribution was significantly different for male and female students, a single demographic question identifying the gender of the respondent was added to the 44 questions of ISL on the printed questionnaire. No other identifying information was collected to protect confidentiality of the respondents.
The responses of a particular student were processed online and four scores corresponding to the four dimensions of the Felder-Silverman model were displayed as a report. The gender response was typed on to the displayed report manually and the report was printed. Thus 125 printed reports corresponding to 125 students formed the basis of the data analysis and results presented next.
The research methodology used in this research involved administering the survey instrument called The Index of Learning Styles (ILS) to 125 business students mentioned earlier. The ILS instrument was administered to the students in the form of a printed questionnaire.
Study of the influence of these factors on learning styles distribution requires collection of appropriate demographic data from the students along with the ILS questionnaire. The scope of this research was limited to examining the influence of gender on the distribution of learning styles. Therefore, extensive demographic data other than the gender data were not collected in this research.

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The primary objective of this research is to investigate the distribution of learning styles of South Korean business students using the Index of Learning Styles (ILS) instrument based on the Felder-Silverman Learning Style Model (Felder 1996). A convenience sample of 125 business students at an institution of higher education in South Korea was surveyed in this research during the period March to June of 2011. This research is the first in a series of future studies planned by the authors that will contribute to the current understanding of learning styles of students from Asian countries and cultures.
This research is a pioneering study for investigating the learning style distribution of South Korean business students in their home country since no comparable prior research seems to exist. However, this preliminary research is limited in its scope in the sense that the survey data was collected for a sample size of only 125 students from only one institution during one semester. Extensive future research is necessary for validating, refining, and generalizing the results obtained in this research.
The data in the analysis reports for the 125 respondents were organized into four cross tabulations corresponding to the four dimensions of the Felder-Silverman Learning Style Model shown in Tables 1 to 4. The column variable includes the five categories of learning style preferences in each of the four dimensions and the row variable in cludes the two genders, male and female.

이론/모형

In this research the authors used the Felder- Silverman Learning Style Model implemented in the Index of Learning Styles (ILS) instrument to survey 125 South Korean business students enrolled in an institution of higher learning in South Korea. The analysis of the data shows that majority of the surveyed students have balanced learning style preference in each of the four dimensions of the Felder-Silverman Learning Style Model.

후속연구

This statement needs to be verified with further research involving a much broader population of business students enrolled in more number of South Korean institutions of higher learning. However, assuming that the distribution of learning style preferences of South Korean business students found in this research is confirmed by future studies, it has implications for designing teaching methods appropriate for meeting the needs of diverse learners in South Korea and abroad. In South Korea, business faculty can adapt their teaching methods to benefit sensing, visual, reflective, global, and balanced learners.
The authors felt that an investigation of the correlation of gender with learning style would be more valuable in providing additional research result to help settle the issue of the influence of gender on learning style. Second, the limited scope of this research did not make it feasible to administer a more extensive demographic survey in addition to the ILS instrument. The authors plan to use more extensive demographic survey in future research involving investigation of learning style.
Extensive future research is necessary for validating, refining, and generalizing the results obtained in this research. The authors plan to collaborate with other institutions of higher learning in South Korea to obtain data from a more diverse student population in South Korea and enlarge the sample size in the next step of this research.
Further research of learning styles of business students from different countries is likely to show commonality and differences in the learning styles of business students across the globe. The results of such research are expected to help instructors use teaching and learning approaches found effective not only with South Korean and American students but also with students in other countries.

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