Authors:
Muhammad Andi Abdillah Triono
;
Syahrizal Chalil Harahap
and
Humisar Sihombing
Affiliation:
Universitas Negeri Medan, Indonesia
Keyword(s):
Activist, Reflector, Theorist, and Pragmatist
Abstract:
The purpose of this research is to explore students learning styles and to know better way of teaching that fit for different needs of undergraduate finance students in Department of Management, Universitas Negeri Medan. Honey and Mumford theory is used as the main theory to investigate factors that influence the undergraduate students learning style in the disruptive era. Moreover, the research model was built by seven independent variables base on students’ background and one dependent variable that verify four-dimensional learning styles, namely, Activist, Reflector, Theorist, and Pragmatist. Furthermore, primary data were used and analyzed by descriptive statistics and multinomial logistic regression. Moreover, Bunbury Resilient Community Project U-4-72 questionnaire that adduce 80 items with verify four-dimensional learning styles was used for the research questionnaire. All undergraduate finance classes at The Department of Management, Universitas Negeri Medan were the research
population and all under graduate students that taken capital market and financial management courses were taken as the research sample with a total of 148 students. The results revealed that 50.8 percent students have been identified as reflector, 29.4 percent students as pragmatist, 17.5 percent as theorist, and only 2.4 percent as activist. Moreover, students parent career has dominant affected toward students learning style with level of significance below 0.05 in the likelihood ratio test. Based on this outcome, the paper also offers discussion, recommendation and guideline for the future research.
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