Identification of Medical Students’ Learning Styles in Terms of Gender

Pour, Mahnaz Shahrki; Ghoreishinia, Gholamreza; Zare, Sadegh; Arbabisarjou, Azizollah

doi:10.5539/gjhs.v9n4p76

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“…The study pertaining to the prevalence of VL in medical students in Gambia demonstrated quite similar findings as that of our study(Mederos et al, 2019). The study on learning patterns conducted by a group of Iranian researchers demonstrated moreover similar compliance with our study with dominance over VL, however, the results included paramedical samplings apart from medical students(Pour et al, 2017).…”

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The Study of Learning Styles among Medical Students at Majmaah University, Saudi Arabia

2022

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The main objectives of this research were to detect types of learning styles (LS), time spending in studying, to know the relation with GPA, and to determine which LS is suitable with teaching style used in the College of Medicine at Majmaah University. The study was cross-sectional self-survey conducted among male and female medical students at College of Medicine at Majmaah city over 6 months. Cluster sampling was used and total participants were 194 students from College of Medicine (males & females). The data was collected using a designed questionnaire and analysis of data was performed by SPSS (V26).This study showed that majority of participants preferred the Visual learning (VL) style (27.79%), the second most used type was Kinesthetic (24.79%), and the least used type was Auditory (24.53%). It also showed that students who prefer VL style score more than students who prefer other learning styles. It was observed that the student who prefers kinesthetic style spent more time in the studying the more use of this type. In Conclusion, The study concluded that the majority of participants were preferred the VL style. It is also showed that student who prefers visual learning style score more than students who prefer other learning styles. It is important to increase awareness of students regarding types of their learning styles and teaching strategies in college during admission.

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“…Knowledge of the learning styles of students and the characteristics affecting them is important for teacher to improve lesson plans and develop teaching methodologies to adapt them to their needs. This can also be useful in overcoming the traditional method of the teacher-centered method of teaching. 22 Many factors like learner motivation, study skills, and the ability to assess their own learning needs have been identified as good predictors of student performance, 23 and synchronizing a teaching style with the learning preferences of learners may also bring additional benefits for the learners.…”

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<p>Influence of learning-style preferences in academic performance in the subject of human anatomy: an institution-based study among preclinical medical students</p>

Khanal¹,

Giri²,

Shah³

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Purpose: The present study was conducted to find the preferred mode of learning among first-year preclinical students and compare the preferred mode of learning with sex, faculty of students, and academic performance of the students using the VARK questionnaire. Methods: A cross-sectional study was done among 142 first-year Bachelor of Medicine–Bachelor of Surgery and Bachelor of Dental Surgery students from February to May 2018. Demographic data and various academic performance marks were recorded for each individual. VARK (visual, aural, read/write and kinesthetic) questionnaire version 7.8 was administered to calculate the score of each component. Mean VARK scores were calculated and each student classified by their preferred mode of learning. The preferred mode of learning was compared with sex, nationality, faculty of students, and academic performance using χ 2 , unpaired t -tests, and the Mann–Whitney U test. P <0.05 was taken as statistically significant for comparison. Results: A majority of the students (53.52%) were multimodal. The most common multimodal mode of preference was bimodal (26.06%), while the most common unimodal preference was kinesthetic (29.06%). Total V score, K score, and VARK score were higher among males, while A and R scores were higher among females. The K score (7.96±2.35 in males and 6.96±2.43 in females) differed significantly ( P =0.019) between male and female subjects. More subjects with higher scores in the theory exam of anatomy were unimodal learners (53.8%) compared to multimodal learners (46.2%). Conclusion: From this study, it can be concluded that undergraduate students were diverse in their learning styles, but most were multimodal. Though learning styles were found to vary by sex, nationality, and academic performance, differences were not statistically significant.

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The impacts of reading strategy instruction on improving the reading comprehension of students with different learning styles

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Valizadeh

Entezari

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Language Learning in Higher Education

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The current study explores the short- and long-term impacts of explicit reading strategy instruction for improving reading comprehension of students with different learning styles. Sixty Iranian EFL learners took part in this study. They took the Cambridge ECCE reading test as the pre-test and were divided into five groups according to learner type based on Flemings’s VARK questionnaire. The participants underwent 12 weeks of explicit reading strategy instruction and took a post-test to determine the immediate effects of reading strategy training. Three months later, they took a delayed post-test to check the long-term effects of the training. The results of paired samples T-Test and ANOVA using SPSS indicated that there were significant differences in the pre-and post-test scores for all groups in all tests. The results of the post hoc analysis indicated that the auditory type showed the most and the visual type showed the least amount of improvement. The study thus suggests equipping students with appropriate reading strategies that are tailored to their perceived learning style in order to lead to better comprehension and subsequently more enjoyment when reading.

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Identification of Medical Students’ Learning Styles in Terms of Gender

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The Study of Learning Styles among Medical Students at Majmaah University, Saudi Arabia

The Study of Learning Styles among Medical Students at Majmaah University, Saudi Arabia

<p>Influence of learning-style preferences in academic performance in the subject of human anatomy: an institution-based study among preclinical medical students</p>

The impacts of reading strategy instruction on improving the reading comprehension of students with different learning styles

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