The Effect of Learning Style Based Activities on Reading Achievement of Nursing Students

Penelitian ini menginvestigasi dampak dari aktifitas berdasarkan gaya belajar terhadap pencapaian membaca siswa keperawatan dan kesesuaiannya antara hasil tes akhir dan hasil angket. Subyek penelitian ini adalah mahasiswa semester empat akademi keperawatan Bunda Delima, Bandar Lampung. Mereka dipilih menggunakan angket kecenderungan gaya belajar dan tes. Data diperoleh dari hasil tiga tes dan angket. One way anova di SPSS (Statistical Program for Social Science) digunakan untuk menganalisa data. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa tidak ada perbedaan signifikan pada pencapaian membaca siswa setelah diajar menggunakan aktifitas berdasarkan gaya belajar tertentu dan ada kesesuaian antara hasil tes dan hasil angket. Bagaimanapun, mengadakan aktifitas berdasarkan kecenderungan gaya belajar siswa membantu mereka memahami materi lebih baik.This study investigated the effect of learning styles-based activities on reading achievement of nursing academy students and the congruence between the post-test results and the questionnaire results. The subject of this research was the fourth-semester students of Bunda Delima nursing academy, Bandar Lampung. They were chosen purposely by using learning style preference questionnaire and reading test. The data were obtained from the result of three post-tests and questionnaires. One way anova in SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Science) was used to analyze the data. The result shows that there is no significant difference on students’ reading achievement after being taught using activities based on a certain learning style and there is congruence between the post-test results and the questionnaire results. However, conducting activities based on student learning style preference help students comprehend the material better.Keywords: Achievement, activity, learning style