Gender Effect on Student's Learning Improvement and Satisfaction

Learning is one of the most important human activities. In this field, experts should recognize related factors like gender and modify learning accordingly, to reach the best constant results; so this study was aimed at investigating gender effect on students’ learning improvement and satisfaction. This observational study was conducted in Rasht nursing institute.Two groups of male (n=21) and female (n=19) that were selected conveniently were taught with similar teaching method and their learning and improvement satisfaction were assessed using researcher-based questionnaire using independent t-test, chi-square test and Fisher's exact test in SPSS 13. Comparing demographic characteristics showed that there were significant differences between two groups in case of work experience in medical field (p<0.002), interest in medical sciences (p<0.0001) and marital statues (p<0.025). Female students were more satisfied with teaching method (p<0.1000) but both groups had similar learning improvement. According to the results, both genders get similar benefits from lecture method, but females are more satisfied.