Learning Styles Among III Year Medical Students of Meenakshi Medical College
Journal Title: National Journal of Research in Community Medicine - Year 2014, Vol 3, Issue 2
Abstract
Back ground: Learning styles refer to the ways you prefer to approach new Information. Each of us learn and process information in our own special way though, we share some learning patterns, preferences and approaches. Using multiple learning styles for learning is a relatively new approach. If the student’s primary learning style is visual, we can ask them to draw pictures in the margins, look at the graphics & read the text that explains the graph. Envision the topic or play a movie in their thoughts of how he will act out the subject matter. If the student’s learning style is auditory, encourage them to listen to the words they read by recognizing and understanding the individual learning style of students we can use techniques better suited for majority in a class. We can encourage the students to boost their learning potential depending on their own style. Hence we want to assess the learning styles among the medical students. Methodology: III year medical students were selected for the study for convenience. A pre designed questionnaire was administered to the individual students. Results: We have collected data from 100 students. The sample consists of 63% females and 37%males. 18% of them from rural area and 82% from urban area. Among them, 65% of students are learning by visual style, 19% of students by auditory style and rest 5% by tactile style. 6% of them learn by visual as well as auditory style. 3% of them learn by visual and tactile style. One person learns both by auditory and tactile & one person learn by all the three styles. Conclusion: Majority of the students learn by visual style, we can include pictures and graphics in our teaching techniques to enhance their learning potential.
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Kokila Selvaraj, Sivaprakasam P
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