Impact of Teaching Styles on Study Skills of University Students

Abstract

During professional training and qualification, teachers get acquainted with a variety of teaching approaches and styles. The strategies chosen by the teachers best represent their temperament and delivery style by implementing these techniques in real-life classroom circumstances. Instructors must use a wide range of teaching styles while educating various subjects. Teaching styles play a significant role in the overall development of learners. They play important role in the development of study skills which ultimately lead to academic performance. In this study we focused on six different styles of teaching (authoritative teaching style, democratic teaching style, Facilitator teaching style, Delegator teaching style, hybrid teaching style, laissez-faire teaching style). Objective of the study was to find out the impact of teaching styles on study skills of university students. Furthermore hypothesis was “there is no significant difference between male and female university teachers in applying the teaching styles in class”. The convenience sampling technique was adopted owing to the pandemic, the university was closed. Teachers were not easily available for data collection. Researcher also created the online questionnaire for teachers and contacted the teachers of the selected departments, and requested them very respectfully to fill the online questionnaires. Data was examined using of statistical package for social science (SPSS). This study was done using descriptive statistics. It was determined that teaching styles had strong negative relationship with the study skills of the university students.