Influence of Learning Styles Preference on Senior Secondary School Chemistry Students’ Study Habits

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Study investigates how visual, auditory, kinesthetics, tactile, group, and individual learning styles affect study habits among senior secondary school chemistry students in Osun State. A descriptive survey design was used, sampling 200 SSSII chemistry students from five intact classes. Data were analyzed with SPSS, while Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) tested the stated hypotheses. Results indicate all examined learning styles significantly influence students’ study habits and academic outcomes, supporting differentiated learning preferences.

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Influence of Learning Styles Preference on Senior Secondary School Chemistry Students’ Study Habits Oyeniran Oyetola Department of Educational Technology and Library Studies, Faculty of Education, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, [Nigeria.](Nigeria. ooyeniran@oauife.edu.ng)[ ooyeniran@oauife.edu.ng](Nigeria. ooyeniran@oauife.edu.ng) Oteyola Temitope Adetokunbo Department of Educational Technology and Library Studies, Faculty of Education, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, [Nigeria.](Nigeria. toteyola@oauife.edu.ng)[ toteyola@oauife.edu.ng](Nigeria. toteyola@oauife.edu.ng) The study was carried out to determine the influence of visual, auditory, kinesthetics, tactile, group and individual learning styles on the study habits of senior secondary school chemistry students. These were with the view to examine the influence of learning styles preference on senior secondary school chemistry students study habits in Osun State. The descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. Two hundred senior secondary school II (SSSII) chemistry students chosen from five intact classes were selected as samples for the study. Data gathered were analysed using statistical package for the social sciences (SPSS) . Furthermore, Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was used to test all the hypothesis raised in the study. The results showed that all the learning styles (visual, auditory, kinesthetics, tactile, group and individual) significantly influenced the study habits of senior secondary school chemistry students in Osun State. Keywords: learning styles, study habits, chemistry, learning outcomes, academic performance INTRODUCTION Knowledge acquisition through learning is vital to human existence and survival through ages. Learning is a major process everyone experiences either consciously or unconsciously through systematic and repeated occurrence of events. Unique skills, abilities and potentials that are inherent and being showcased by man are products of effective learning (Subotnik, Olszewski-Kubilius, & Worrell, 2011) . The process of learning is continuous and happens throughout human existence on earth. Learning can be immediate, induced by an event or interaction with the environment. Basically, learning is defined as a permanent change in behaviour of an individual which occurs as a result of receiving and processing of relevant information in the form of instruction. According to Hsieh, Jang, Hwang, and Chen (2011) the characteristics, strengths and preferences in the form in which instructional information is been received and processed by an individual is termed learning styles. Learning styles play a major role in students’ learning activities and achievement of desirable goals and favourable learning outcomes (Sen and Yilmaz, 2012; (Malacapay, 2019) . The fact is that each student has a preferred and unique method of learning that suits his or her learning performance. Learning style is a personal characteristic that enables a student to process and transform knowledge received into personal habit. Students learn in various ways and methods such as visual image or presentation, listening to music while some students learn actively when subjected to hands-on activities. The adequate knowledge of learning style will help a student to learn using the best Citation: Oyetola, O., & Adetokunbo, O. T. (2025) . Influence of learning styles preference on senior secondary school chemistry students’ study habits. Anatolian Journal of Education, 10(1), 81-90. [https://doi.org/10.29333/aje.2025.1016a](https://doi.org/10.29333/aje.2025.1016a) strategies thereby maximizing learning potentials for better learning outcomes (Alavi & Toozandehjani, 2017) . Learning style is the cognitive, effective, and psychosocial indicators of how students perceive, interact with and respond to the learning environment for efficient and productive learning outcomes. Learning style is focused on the manner with which students ret

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What is the overall finding about learning styles and study habits?

All listed learning styles significantly influenced senior secondary school chemistry students’ study habits in Osun State.

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