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    Does learning style impact student academic performance?
    (2017) Ling, Ang Siew; Basit, Abdul; Hassan, Zubair
    This research is to examine the impact of learning styles on student academic performance in private college of Malaysia. The framework developed for this study includes Visual Learning, Verbal Learning, Active Learning and Sequential Learning in the cluster of independent variables while Academic Performance falls in the dependent variable. This is an explanatory quantitative research engaging a sample of 200 MBA students was selected from a private college in Malaysia. Descriptive and Regression analysis were engaged to identify the impact of the independent variable on the dependent variable. The findings of the study founds visual and sequential learning to have a significant impact on academic performance while the other two variables (Active and Verbal) learning show no significant impact on the dependent variable. Future researchers are recommended to explore different contexts through engaging same framework while other frameworks can also be developed to investigate the topic.