Identification of the Learning Styles and “On-the-Job” Learning Methods Implemented by Nurses for Promoting Their Professional Knowledge and Skills

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michal Rassin ◽  
Yaffa Kurzweil ◽  
Yael Maoz
Keyword(s):  
Learning Styles ◽  
Learning Style ◽  
Personal Responsibility ◽  
Professional Knowledge ◽  
The Other ◽  
Learning Skills ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Learning Style Inventory ◽  
Common Learning ◽  
Self Learning

AbstractThe aim of this study was to identify the learning styles and methods used by nurses to promote their professional knowledge and skills. 928 nurses from 11 hospitals across Israel completed 2 questionnaires, (1) Kolb’s Learning Style Inventory, Version 3.1. and (2) the On-The-Job Learning Styles Questionnaire for the Nursing Profession. The most common learning style was the convergent style. The other learning styles were rated in the following descending order: accommodation, assimilation, and divergence. The on-the-job learning style consistently ranked highest was experience of relevant situations. On the other hand, seeking knowledge from books, journals, television, or the Internet was ranked lowest on all the indicators examined. With respect to general and on-the-job learning styles, statistically significant differences were found between groups of nurses by: country of birth, gender, department, age, education, and role. Nurses required to take more personal responsibility for their own professional development by deepening their self-learning skills.

Comparison of Learning Styles between Physical Education and Dance Majors

1984 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 583-588 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorothy B. Zakrajsek ◽  
Rebecca L. Johnson ◽  
Diane B. Walker
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Learning Styles ◽  
Learning Style ◽  
T Test ◽  
Education Majors ◽  
Learning Style Inventory ◽  
Physical Education Majors

Learning styles of dance and physical education majors were described and compared. Subjects were 167 declared majors in 1982 from 9 universities (87 PE, 80 dance; 44 males, 115 females). Kolb's Learning Style Inventory which measures abstractness or concreteness and activity or reflectivity was given. By t test (.05) no significant differences in preferred learning style were found between majors or genders.

scholarly journals LEARNING STYLES

2009 ◽  
Vol 16 (02) ◽  
pp. 162-168
Author(s):  
KHALID FAROOQ DANISH ◽  
AZRA SAEED AWAN
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Learning Styles ◽  
Learning Style ◽  
Career Choices ◽  
Intermediate Level ◽  
Third Place ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Learning Style Inventory ◽  
Medical College ◽  
Humanities Students

O b j e c t i v e s : 1. To study the prevalence of learning styles in intermediate level students in Rawalpindi according to Kolb'sLearning Style Inventory. 2. To study the correlation of learning styles with career choices of intermediate level students in Rawalpindi. 3.To compare the results of the study with the learning styles of clinical students of a medical college. D e s i g n : Cross sectional. Descriptive.M e t h o d s : The study was done on the intermediate level students of Government Colleges in Rawalpindi. It included the Pre-Medical, Pre-Engineering and Humanities students. All students were given a questionnaire based on Kolb's learning style inventory, and responsescollected. Instructions to fill the questionnaire were given verbally to all students. Each student was also instructed to present three careerchoices in order of priority. Data was collected. Results: Prevalence of different learning styles in medical students and intermediate levelstudents is shown in table-l and table-ll respectively. C o n c l u s i o n s : The prevalence and pattern of learning styles of intermediate levellearners and medical students is different. Majority of intermediate level learners have the converger learning styles in contrast with themedical students in whom accommodators are in overwhelming majority. Most learners choosing "Doctor" as their preferred career amongintermediate level learners were of assimilator style, followed by convergers. Accommodators were on third place in choosing "Doctor" aspreferred career. The most preferred career among intermediate level learner was "Teacher".

Reality and Diversity: Reform in the Architectural Design Studio

2006 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 20-31
Author(s):  
Jia Beisi
Keyword(s):  
Learning Styles ◽  
Learning Style ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Learning Style Inventory ◽  
Reflection In Action ◽  
Architectural Design Studio ◽  
And Performance

Habraken points out that the architectural studio failed to bring students to basic questions in the architecture of everyday environments. Till criticizes that in a studio, it is only the professional value represented by the teachers that prevails. To investigate the reasons of the allegation, this paper introduces a learning model defined by David A. Kolb, in which a learning process consists of two dimensional movements: i.e., prehension (concrete experiences vs. abstract conceptualization) and transformation (reflection and experiment). The paper then inquires into Schön's observation in the studio learning mode characterized as reflection-in-action. It is found that this studio is mainly dealing with the transformation dimension, and prehension dimension is either suppressed or represented by the teacher's experiences and conceptions. The paper discovers that the cause of problems raised by Habraken and Till is the inherent lack of substance in the prehension dimension. The paper assesses a studio programme in which the basic questions of built environment were systematically introduced. It analyzes the students' reactions and performance in line with students' learning styles found using Kolb's Learning Style Inventory (LSI). It suggests that the students' learning activities are more diversified than what Schön could perceive. There is a possibility to adapt students' personal experience and abstract conceptualization which may play into the studio. By enhancing diversity of learning styles rather than letting one's learning style (reflection-in-action) prevail, the studio may become a platform in which students may learn from each other.

Students' Learning Styles and Learning Effects

2014 ◽  
pp. 197-235
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
High Schools ◽  
Learning Styles ◽  
Learning Style ◽  
Negative Association ◽  
Survey Result ◽  
Learning Style Inventory ◽  
Open Source Data ◽  
Source Data ◽  
Exam Scores

This chapter introduces the concept of learning style and Memletics learning style inventory, and uses open-source data mining software WEKA to cluster the students of experiment classes in four high schools according to the values of seven dimensions in the Memletics learning style inventory that are calculated based on the survey result about their learning styles. The clustering result demonstrates that verbal and physical are always positively associated with exam scores, visual dimension usually has negative association with score exams; the association of learning style with exam scores remains almost static, and the high, medium, and low sum of dimension values of learning style corresponds to high schools in developed, developing, and undeveloped area in China, respectively. The findings are analyzed. The implication of learning style for intelligent instruction of English subject as a foreign language is suggested.

Development of a Mobile Application for Learning Style Prediction

2019 ◽  
pp. 188-207
Author(s):  
Eugenia Olaguez Torres ◽  
Piero Espino ◽  
Jonathan Garcia
Keyword(s):  
Learning Styles ◽  
Learning Style ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Intelligent Systems ◽  
Academic Program ◽  
Development Environment ◽  
Java Programming ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Common Learning

This chapter presents the development of a mobile application through the use of intelligent systems adapted to learning styles in accordance to the models of Feder-Silverman and Kolb. This development takes place in a Java programming language within the Android Studio development environment, which at the same time uses the SQLite mobile data base. The mobile application allowed the authors to identify the learning styles of students from the Mechatronics Engineering academic program that show some sort of educational backwardness in the subject of differential calculus. It was found that, according to the Felder-Silverman model, the style that predominates among students is the auditory style, while in accordance to the Kolb model, it was identified that the reflective style was the most common learning style amongst mechatronics students. It is concluded that through the use of this mobile application, students are able to identify the learning style, predict, and apply appropriate learning techniques to their learning style.

Moving Beyond Traditions

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anders Berglund
Keyword(s):  
Learning Styles ◽  
Learning Style ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Deep Level ◽  
Teaching Style ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Collective Work ◽  
Common Learning ◽  
Thesis Writing

Student learning is built on native ability, prior preparation and experiences but also by the compatibility of his or her learning style and the instructor’s teaching style. Past research (Kolb, 1984; Felder & Silverman, 1988; Baillie & Moore, 2004; Biggs & Tang, 2007; Crawley, Malmqvist, Ostlund, & Brodeur, 2007) indicate mismatches between engineering students’ common learning styles and traditional teaching styles. This paper addresses a transition from a teacher centered approach to a collaborative student centered approach. A longitudinal study of bachelor thesis redesign is described by following the progression in three parallel courses over four consecutive years. Moving beyond the traditional practices of individual thesis writing, a strict individual assignment has been transformed where roughly 50% now originates from collective work efforts. Findings show support to a collective approach when working with bachelor thesis writing as work groups become self-governed, attached with a creative disposition, pursuing functioning knowledge, key generic skills of industrial relevance, and collectively supporting deep level learning.

scholarly journals When are nursing students on clinical placements ready to expand their learning repertoire?

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Marlene Holmberg ◽  
Bente K. Stisen ◽  
Sarah M. Grau ◽  
Kirsten Nielsen
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Learning Styles ◽  
Learning Style ◽  
Baccalaureate Nursing ◽  
Baccalaureate Nursing Students ◽  
The Other ◽  
Clinical Placements ◽  
The Third ◽  
New Learning ◽  
Learning Research

Learning styles indicate an individual’s preferred way of learning. Research suggests that it is important for students on clinical placements to begin the learning process with the preferred learning style and subsequently develop their ability to use other styles and become more balanced learners. What is unknown is when baccalaureate nursing students are ready to develop the other learning styles, and what facilitates such an expansion in their learning style repertoire? This is important, because students need to develop the abilities to learn both by acting and by deepen their knowledge of theory to meet the requirements of the nursing profession. An American study found that operating room students felt confident to adopt new learning styles by the third week of clinical placements. No studies to date have retrieved a similar pattern of readiness to expand learning style repertoire among nursing students. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate when students are ready to expand their learning style repertoire in a Baccalaureate Nursing Programme and to investigate the factors that influence such an expansion. Data were generated through participant observations and interviews. The findings indicated that students were ready in different weeks, and that interaction with nurses, the context, and the type of ward in the clinical placement were crucial factors for students to be able to expand their repertoire. The conclusion was that both students and preceptors need to be ready before students can adopt and develop other learning styles.

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