The Association Between Learning Style, Learning Strategies with Academic Performance Among Nursing Students

Background: One of the most important problems in student's education is academic failure. Identifying factors that affecting academic achievement and pay attention to these factors is a stride toward success. Students' academic achievement and related factors have priority in education research. Objective: The objective of present study was to evaluate the association between learning styles and learning strategies on academic performance among nursing students. Materials and Methods: A Co-relational study was conducted in The University of Lahore. In this study 109 students were selected via convenient sampling. In this study co-relation test was used to assess the association between learning styles and learning strategies on academic performance among nursing students. Results: According to correlation coefficients, there is a positive significant relationship between students learning styles (.060) and learning strategies (.013) and p value is less than 0.01. Conclusion: Considering positive and significant correlation between learning and study strategies with academic achievement in nursing students, so, we suggest that students and teachers use these strategies to improve academic achievement and reduce the academic loss of students. Keywords: Learning. Learning styles. Learning strategies. Academic performance. Students DOI: 10.7176/JHMN/72-08 Publication date:March 31st 202