Survey of learning styles of the students in Department of Health in Arak University of Medical Sciences based on Kolb’s Model
Journal Title: International Research Journal of Applied and Basic Sciences - Year 2014, Vol 8, Issue 9
Abstract
Learning is defined as changes that impact on people’s knowledge in a specific field. The goal of this study is to determine learning styles of student of Health College of Arak University of medical sciences in 2012. This study was a descriptive cross sectional research that was performed on 130 students of Health College in 1391 by random sampling. To collect date, a questionnaire consisting of two sections was used. The first section was demographic questionnaire and second section was Kolb’s learning styles questionnaire. The results showed that learning style of majority of students was diverging (52.3%), accommodating (30.8%), assimilating (12.3%) and converting (4.6%) were followed. In all fields predominant style was diverging. 52.7% of occupational health, 57.1% of environmental health and 50% of public health were this style. Considering the learning style of majority of students is diverging and these students learn through group discussion and brain storming is recommended the teachers use educational methods Such as group discussion, brain storming, role playing, computerized simulation and demonstration in theoretical.
Authors and Affiliations
Mehdi Ghasemi| MSc of occupational health, department of occupational health, Tehran University of medical sciences, Tehran, Iran., Athena Rafieepour| MSc of occupational safety & health, Arak University of medical sciences, department of occupational health, Arak, Iran., Mehdi Asghari| PhD student of occupational health, department of occupational health , Arak University of medical sciences, Arak, Iran, Marzieh Abbassinia| MSc of occupational health, department of occupational health, Tehran University of medical sciences, Tehran, Iran., Ruzhin Tabbak| Bachelor student of occupational health, department of occupational health, Arak University of medical sciences, Arak, Iran, Iman Ahmadnezhad *| Ph.D. Student of Addiction Study, Department of Advanced Technologies in Medicine Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, email: iman.ahmadnezhad@gmail.com, Ali Dormohammadi| MSc of Occupational Health Eng, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran
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