Survey Learning Styles of North Khorasan university of medical science Students based on Kolb's Model
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Background and Objectives
Knowledge about the nature and types of learning styles in learners can help teachers to adjust their teaching methods with students, learning styles to achieve the desired educational outcomes. This study was conducted to determine students’ learning styles based on Kolb learning pattern in North Khorasan University of medical sciences.Material and Methods
This descriptive cross sectional study was conducted on students of North Khorasan university of medical sciences in 2012. Kolb's Learning Style Inventory was used to conduct the research. Data were analyzed by spss16 software and presented with chi-square test.Results
Of the 240 subjects, 79(32/9%) of subjects were male and 161(67/1%) of subjects were female. Mean age (s) and score were 20/82 years and 16/25 respectively.Percentage of the students’ learning style for converging, accommodating, absorbent and divergent was 45/4, 17/1, 23/3 and 14/2 respectively. There was a statistical significant difference (P≤0/05) between learning styles of the nurse school students and health school students. The most learning style in the nurse school students and health school students was converging and divergent respectively.Conclusion
According to our results the most prevailed learning style was converging style and so traditional education methods were boring. Therefore use new education methods according to student fields for example group discussion and problem solving are recommended.Keywords:
Education , students , Learning styles , Kolb
Language:
Persian
Published:
Journal of North Khorasan University of Medical Sciences, Volume:6 Issue: 1, 2014
Pages:
81 to 87
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