Background: Students have diverse learning styles throughout the academic year, making it essential for instructors to design courses that accommodate these differences. Learning is a complex process of achieving knowledge or skills involving a learner’s biological characteristics/senses (physiological dimension); personality characteristics such as attention, emotion, motivation (affective dimension); cognitive dimension; and psychological/individual differences (psychological dimension). Methods: A Google Form was created based on the visual, aural, read/write, and kinesthetic questionnaire and was circulated among the students of Sri Venkateshwaraa Group of Institution, Pondicherry. The results were collected and evaluated through an Excel data sheet, and the learning style of everyone was calculated. Results: The highest academic scorers in medical and allied health in the initial years are aural type of learners, and late years are kinesthetic type of learners. The academic scorers in the engineering course are kinesthetic and multimodal type of learners. Conclusion: The study concluded that 1 st year students prefer aural and kinesthetic styles, upper-year students of particularly in medical and allied health, prefer kinesthetic learning. The research confirms a moderate positive correlation between kinesthetic learning and academic performance, and weak positive correlation was found between aural and academic performance. The pedagogical approach can be enhanced during the initial years of the academic stream to better understand the concepts and improve academic performance.
Jeyanthi et al. (Wed,) studied this question.