scholarly journals The Relationship Between Learning Style Preferences and Gender, Educational Major and Status in First Year Medical Students: A Survey Study From Iran

2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Sarabi-Asiabar ◽  
Mehdi Jafari ◽  
Jamil Sadeghifar ◽  
Shahram Tofighi ◽  
Rouhollah Zaboli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Learning Style ◽  
Survey Study ◽  
First Year ◽  
Learning Style Preferences ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Style Preferences ◽  
First Year Medical Students ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals Learning Styles of Undergraduate Medical Students

2018 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Cortés Barré ◽  
Javier Francisco Gullén Olaya
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Learning Styles ◽  
Learning Style ◽  
First Year ◽  
Undergraduate Medical Students ◽  
Effective Learning ◽  
Learning Style Inventory ◽  
Learning Style Preferences ◽  
Style Preferences ◽  
First Year Medical Students

<strong>Introduction: </strong>According to the experiential learning theory, each person develops a learning style that characterizes his/her preferred way to acquire and transform experiences to create knowledge. The objective of this study was to identify the learning styles of undergraduate medical students. <strong>Methods: </strong>The Kolb Learning Style Inventory was applied to first-year medical students at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Bogotá, Colombia) during the second period of 2009. <strong>Results: </strong>204 students completed the questionnaire (the average age was 18.5 years; 55% were women). Students preferred the abstract styles of learning, including assimilating (47%) and converging (27%) styles. <strong>Conclusions: </strong>Having information about medical students learning style preferences can help educators to design teaching strategies that promote a more effective learning. Teachers should provide a variety of learning contexts to stimulate the strengthening of their abilities.

Does gender influence learning style preferences of first-year medical students?

2007 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 336-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jill A. Slater ◽  
Heidi L. Lujan ◽  
Stephen E. DiCarlo
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Learning Style ◽  
Sensory Modality ◽  
Learning Preferences ◽  
First Year ◽  
Male Population ◽  
Learning Style Preferences ◽  
Modality Combinations ◽  
Style Preferences ◽  
First Year Medical Students

Students have specific learning style preferences, and these preferences may be different between male and female students. Understanding a student's learning style preference is an important consideration when designing classroom instruction. Therefore, we administered the visual, auditory, reading/writing, kinesthetic (VARK) learning preferences questionnaire to our first-year medical students; 38.8% (97 of 250 students) of the students returned the completed questionnaire. Both male (56.1%) and female (56.7%) students preferred multiple modes of information presentation, and the numbers and types of modality combinations were not significantly different between genders. Although not significantly different, the female student population tended to be more diverse than the male population, encompassing a broader range of sensory modality combinations within their preference profiles. Instructors need to be cognizant of these differences and broaden their range of presentation styles accordingly.

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