Third International Conference on Education and Distance Learning – 28 th April 2017, Sri Lanka 1 Relationship among students’ learning styles, assessment methods and students’ performances Samanthi Wickramasinghe (samanthi@horizoncampus.edu.lk) Horizon College of Business and Technology (Horizon Campus), Malabe, Sri Lanka Sunesh Hettiarachchi (hsunesh@gmail.com) TECH Computers, Nugegoda, Sri Lanka ABSTRACT Management of the Horizon Campus spends considerable amount of funds as capital and operational cost annually to provide better teaching and learning environment but students’ performances are low compare to the allocated funds. According to the Nelson Mandela “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world ˮ, unfortunately most of the lecturers are used assessments as the weapon. Therefore, most of the students are fear to face for assessments. Hence, lecturers have to change students’ mindset by conveying assessments are used as a tool/indicator to improve student learning and not to penalize students. This study is aimed to identify learning styles of students and observe the relationship among students’ learning styles, assessment methods and students’ performances. The population of this study is comprised the students at faculty of Information Technology in Horizon Campus. Depending on the students’ marks obtained in pre-assessments, it is aimed to improve students’ knowledge and skills in studying. Survey outcome depicted there is a significant difference between marks of pre and post assessments and further it is fact that the students are performed better in preferred assessment methods/assessment methods based on their learning styles. Therefore, survey outcomes evident that there is a relationship among students’ learning styles, assessment methods and students performances of the selected group of students. Keywords: Assessments, Learning Outcomes, Learning Styles