A survey of gender and learning styles

Philbin, Marge; Meier, Elizabeth A.; Huffman, Sherri; Boverie, Patricia

doi:10.1007/bf01544184

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“…The extent to which this trend, and indeed the trend that females perceived their course environments more favorably overall, can be generalized to other institutions is not clear. On one hand, there is long-standing evidence that males and females typically exhibit different learning styles 35 which could partly explain differences in the way learning, and the environments generally, are perceived in the present study. Second year students perceived the full instrument and its subscales as better, compared to other students.…”

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Students' perceptions of the educational environment in an Iranian Medical School, as measured by The Dundee Ready Education Environment Measure

Bakhshi

Bakhshialiabad

Hassanshahi

2014

Bangladesh Med Res Counc Bull

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Learning environment is found to be important in determining students' academic success and learning. The goal of this study was to investigate the viewpoints of medical students toward learning environment based on The Dundee Ready Education Environment Measure (DREEM) at Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences (RUMS). This descriptive study was conducted using the Persian DREEM questionnaire. All medical students in basic and clinical courses except internship students (fifth and sixth year) were approached to participate during the study period, of which 223 provided consent and completed the survey. Data were analyzed by SPSS-17, t-test and ANOVA statistical tests were used. The mean total score was 113.8±17.31 (out of a maximum of 200, 56.9%) indicating relative satisfaction with the perceived environment. There were no individual areas of excellence. Some items scored consistently badly indicating cause for concern. The highest score were related to Academic Self-Perception (64.11%) and learning (57.2%) domains. The lowest score were related to Teachers (55.9%), Social Self-Perceptions (56.6%) and atmosphere (55.8%) domains. Basic science students perceived the environment to be significantly more positive than preclinical students (p<0.05). Native and married students perceived the environment to be significantly more positive (p<0.05). Second and fourth year students were significantly higher than the others (P<0.01). There was significant difference between mean scores of total mean DREEM and sub-domains by year of enrolment (p=0.001). This tool identified areas of concern within RUMS medical school. Further use of the DREEM as a monitoring tool would be useful to re-evaluate the environment following appropriate intervention. To create an appropriate educational environment and reduce the deficits in order to provide a better learning environment with facilitate and supportive system for students.

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Students' perceptions of the educational environment in an Iranian Medical School, as measured by The Dundee Ready Education Environment Measure

Bakhshi

Bakhshialiabad

Hassanshahi

2014

Bangladesh Med Res Counc Bull

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“…This trend, that males perceive their course environments more favourably overall, may not be generalized to other nursing institutions. However, there is long-standing evidence that males and females typically exhibit different learning styles (Philbin et al, 1995), which could partly explain differences in the way learning, and the environments generally, are perceived in the present study.…”

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Educational environment of nursing undergraduates in University of Ruhuna: effect of gender

Hettiarachchi

2013

J. Univ. Ruhuna

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A considerable increase in male admission into the nursing profession demands a better understanding of gender influences on nursing education and practice. This research explores how male and female nursing students perceive the new educational environment created by the curriculum introduced for B.Sc. Nursing Degree programme in the University of Ruhuna. Prospective study using the already validated Dundee Ready Education Environment (DREEM) questionnaire was administered to all B.Sc. Nursing undergraduates enrolled in academic years 2008/9 (first batch) and 2009/10 (second batch), respectively. The DREEM questionnaire, consists of 50 items each having a scoring range of 0-4 Likert type scale, was completed by 55 nursing students. Mean±SD DREEM scores were 112.0±15.6 and 106.90±1.54 for the male and female nursing undergraduates (p=0.22), respectively, indicating relative satisfaction with the perceived environment.The academic self-perceptions of male undergraduates fall more towards the positive side (mean score of 19.50±2.27) and that of females (mean score of 17.16±3.52; p=0.005) fall towards the negative side. The social self-perception of females of the first batch of nursing students was significantly low (mean score =13.65) when compared with that of females of the second batch of students (mean score =15.40; p=0.02). The male students of the second batch were having overall higher perception (mean score of 118.2) when compared with females of the same batch (mean score of 107.8; p=0.06). This study identifies the issues pertaining to the perception of learning and academic self-perception in the nursing programme. Further, use of DREEM as a monitoring tool would be useful to re-evaluate the environment for appropriate intervention.

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“…The significance of considering, for instance, gender has been shown by Belenky et al (1986), Philbin et al (1995), as well as by Sadler-Smith (1999). These studies propose; e.g.…”

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Considering the Importance of User Profiles in Interface Design

Liu¹,

Osvalder²,

Karlsson³

2010

User Interfaces

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Human-computer interaction (HCI) is an interdisciplinary research area which concerns the study of interaction between humans (operators as users) and computers. A widely used definition interprets this concept as "a discipline concerned with the design, evaluation and implementation of interactive computing systems for human use and with the study of major phenomena surrounding them" (ACM SIGCHI, 1992). The reason for stating 'interdisciplinary' as the nature of HCI is the involvement of different disciplines contributing to HCI. Computer science is not the only discipline contributing to HCI; other disciplines, such as cognitive psychology, human factors, engineering, design, social and organizational psychology are also considered important and relevant. In the past for many years, a comprehensive range of research and studies concerning different aspects of HCI has been conducted or implemented. These studies are diverse, and include, for instance, dialogue techniques, gestural analysis and multimodal interfaces, computer graphics, computational linguistics, spatial cognition, robot navigation and wayfinding, input styles or devices, and monitor screens etc. However, the ultimate goal of the studies is to contribute to improving the interaction between humans and computer systems by endowing technical systems with higher usability and satisfaction. Facilitating the mutual interaction by presenting information on the status of the computer systems, a user interface normally works as a kind of communication platform or bridge between human beings and computers during the interaction. However, humans work as users operating or controlling the system by processing and interpreting the information. How to design interfaces that assist users in task performance in an optimal manner during interactions is a major challenge for all design engineers. When users interact with computer systems, many factors can influence overall performance. These factors cover various issues from the user side, task side, technical system side, and working environment/context side.

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A survey of gender and learning styles

Cited by 113 publications

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Students' perceptions of the educational environment in an Iranian Medical School, as measured by The Dundee Ready Education Environment Measure

Students' perceptions of the educational environment in an Iranian Medical School, as measured by The Dundee Ready Education Environment Measure

Educational environment of nursing undergraduates in University of Ruhuna: effect of gender

Considering the Importance of User Profiles in Interface Design

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