The Influence of Learning Style on Hospitality and Tourism Students' Preference for Web Assignments

Abstract

Investigation of students' learning styles has increased dramatically over the past decade, concurrent with the increased use of Web-based teaching. This research project was designed to explore whether hospitality management and tourism management students with different learning styles had different preferences for Active or Reflective Web-based assignments. Results indicated that Active, Sensing, Visual and Sequential learning styles were all positively correlated and these learning styles were negatively correlated to Reflective, Intuitive, Verbal and Global, which were positively correlated to each other. Hospitality management and tourism management students preferred the Active-Sequential assignment over the Reflective-Global assignment. Instructors should be aware of students' learning styles in order to plan effective assignments that enable students to utilize different learning styles.