Investigating Students’ Learning Styles: A Pilot Study

Abstract

The purposes of this study are to measure the reliability of the Indonesian-translated VARK questionnaire, to investigate students' dominant learning styles, to find out whether students' learning styles are different based on their genders, and to find out whether the differences in GPA among students whose different learning styles. The data were collected through administrating Indonesian-translated VARK questionnaire to accounting department students of Pontianak State Polytechnic. This study finds that the translated questionnaire is not reliable to measure students' learning styles based on the sensory modalities. This study also finds that the students had various learning styles which had insignificant difference in their gender and academic achievements.