VARK learning style: a quasi experiment research on impulse and momentum
I Sintia, H Rusnayati, and A Samsudin

Program Studi Pendidikan Fisika, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Jl. Dr. Setiabudi No.229 Bandung 40154, Indonesia

Abstract

Each person have different preference in learning and processing information which describe by learning style. The VARK Learning styles divide learning style into visual, aural, reading/writing, and kinesthetic. Most of learning process in class only providing aural and visual learner, teacher need to broaden their teaching style so that they may reach a great number of their student. This research aim to identify students learning style and compare physics learning result between visual learner and aural learner in impulse momentum material. Research was designed according to quasi experiment design with 50 senior high school students as participants. The VARK Questionnaire has been utilized to identify students learning styles. The result shows 18% of the students are visual, 20% Aural, 18% Reading, 24% kinesthetic, and 20% multimodes. In addition we compare learning result between visual and aural learner and it show that visual learners better than aural learners which is shown by N-gain value. <g> = 0,65 for visual learner, <g>=0,59 for aural learner. In conclusion, knowing student learning style is beneficial for teacher to broaden their teaching style so its best suited to all students.

Keywords: Learning Style; VARK; Impulse Momentum; Visual, Aural;

Topic: Physics Education