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An Analysis of Learning Styles and Critical Thinking among Engineering Students
Mimi Mohaffyza Mohamad, Marina Ibrahim Mukhtar, Yee Mei Heong, Tee Tze Kiong

Last modified: 2017-04-11

Abstract


Learning styles are reflect students’ behavior in determine preferences in learning situations. Students learn in many ways by seeing, hearing, acting, reasoning, memorizing and visualizing. Students also think different way and critical thinking is a desirable competency concern in academic achievement. Various critical thinking might therefore be influenced by individual learning preferences. Learning styles and critical thinking for engineering students contribute the factors how students’ learned to achieve the learning outcome and readiness of students of entering market needs. Existing trends in technology and work place need engineers equipped with critical thinking skills such as solving problems, making decisions and understanding of technical and engineering skills for successful future. Therefore, this paper discussed the analysis of learning styles and critical thinking to 315 engineering students. Index of Learning Styles (ILS) was used to measure students’ learning styles while the questionnaire of critical thinking was applied to identify students’ critical thinking in four dimensions; analysis, evaluation, induction and deduction. The result showed that engineering students’ are more to visual-verbal learners and there are almost moderate score of critical thinking in each dimension.