VAK Learning Styles and Study Habits to improve academic performance

Abstract

Taking into account that human beings have different perception channels to mentally represent the information that arrives from the outside to their brain and that each person will do it through the most developed channel, the objective of the research is to identify the relationship between learning styles, study habits and academic performance. A quantitative research of correlational-explanatory scope was carried out, the population refers to 11 students of the seventh grade of the Fidel de Montclar Educational Institution. The results showed that 100% of the students and 50% of the teachers have a kinesthetic learning style. The study habits showed that 45% have great empathy for study, but 72% do not have an adequate physical environment to study, 36% do not have any study habits, 63%, in spite of not being organized, do comply with their homework. The academic performance showed that 63% of the
students have a basic average, 18% a high average, 18% a low average, concluding that both the learning style and study habits influence the academic performance of the students.