This study was a descriptive – correlational focused on learning styles of Grade 7 Students: Basis for enrichment activities.
This study found that the oldest student-respondents registered n age of 22 years old and the youngest registered an age of 12 years old in which a number of the student-respondents, that is, 57 or 27.94 percent that English, Science, MAPEH, TLE, Filipino, Mathematics and Aralin Panlipunan were their favorite subjects; it found too that the parents of the respondent were literates, though a few were unschooled; and majority of the fathers of the student-respondents were farmers accounting for 144 that had a monthly family income of less than PhP5,000 accounting for 174 composed of 1-3 family members with a modal family size of two family members and it was found too that teacher-respondents registered an age of 47 years old while the youngest was 21 years old with master’s units that majority of the teacher-respondents performance has adjectival interpretation of very satisfactory based on the latest IPCRF.
The learning style of the student-respondents and the student-related variates, it was found significant along sex, favorite subject, parents’ occupation, attitude toward reading and study habits but they were not significant along age, parents’ highest educational attainment, gross monthly family income, family size, mean grade for the first and second quarters, days in attendance in school.
It found too that learning style of the student-respondents and the teacher-related variates, was significant only along civil status while it was not significant along age, sex, highest educational attainment, teaching position, gross monthly family income, number of number of years in teaching, latest performance rating based on the IPCRF, number of instructional materials used for the first and second quarters, types of instructional materials prepared, number of relevant in-service trainings and attitude toward teaching.
This also concluded that student-respondents were in their early 10’s with more or less two years age difference which indicated that they possess similar maturity, meanwhile female dominance and outnumbered the male population. However, this does not mean that only the female were interested in schooling, ant the student-respondents regularly attended classes during the first and second quarters and indication that they were interested with it.
The teacher-respondents were just neophytes in the service that still need longer number of years to hone their teaching skills and pedagogy. However, despite the fact that they were just new in the service, they exerted efforts to learn all the facets of their job.
The student-respondents had an average reading level. This signified that the student-reading level was not yet in the proficient or mastery level thus, they need enhancement scheme to raise it to an acceptable level of 85.00 percent. essentially differed when grouped according to their family size, attitude toward schooling and study habits and they were essentially similar when grouped according to age, sex, favorite subject, parents’ highest educational attainment, parents’ occupation, gross monthly family income, mean grade for the first and second quarters and days in attendance in school.
The student-related variates, only sex, favorite subject, parents’ occupation, attitude toward reading and study habits posed significant influence to their learning style while age, parents’ highest educational attainment, gross monthly family income, family size, mean grade for the first and second quarters and days in attendance in school proved to have no influence with it.The teacher-related variates, only civil status proved to significantly influence the learning style of the students. The other identified variates proved to have no significant influence with it.
The reading level of the teacher-respondents toward teaching significantly influenced the learning style of the students.