Exploring IPAS through Learning Styles: An Analysis of the Influence of Learning Styles on Students’ Conceptual Understanding at SD Alam Islami
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https://doi.org/10.17509/mimbar-sd.v13i1.61Keywords:
Conceptual Understanding, Elementary School, IPAS, Learning Styles, Student-Centered LearningAbstract
Accelerated rates of social and technological change require learning systems that develop scientific thinking, character, and problem-solving abilities beginning at the elementary school level. This research investigates the impact of learning styles, namely, visual, auditory and kinesthetic, on students’ conceptual understanding in IPAS (Integrated Natiral and Social Sciences) at a primary school in Bekasi. In a classroom-based quantitative study, a validated learning style questionnaire and force-related multiple-choice tests were administered to gather data. The assumptions for the analyses were met and tested for normality, as well as homogeneity. The product-moment correlation was used to examine the relationships among the variables, and the significance and proportion of explained variance were also tested. There was a significant positive and useful effect between learning style and conceptual understanding as the findings indicated. Students who preferred visual learning obtained higher levels of understanding when learning was embalmed with visualizations; kinesthetic and auditory learners gained when the instructional strategies were similarly focused on their modality strengths. In total, learning styles explained about one-third of the variance in performance, the rest was related to teaching methods, learning environments and motivation. The research proposes that learner-centered differentiation techniques considering a variety of learning styles may enhance better engagement and depth of conceptual learning. Practical implications are related with what teacher professional development in multimodal pedagogical design and curriculum development should be that is based on the laboratory work with discussion and visual material in the direction of supporting learner diversity.
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