Preferred learning style among first year nursing students in a private medical college � A Pilot study

Dr. Brinda S; Dr.Sureka V; Dr.Abeetha S; Dr.Ganesh M; Bhagyashree

Volume : V, Issue : XI, November - 2016

Preferred learning style among first year nursing students in a private medical college � A Pilot study

Dr. Brinda S, Dr. Sureka V, Dr. Abeetha S, Dr. Ganesh M, Bhagyashree

Abstract :

Introduction: The learning style modality has gained utmost importance in modern world as imparting education to its fullest knowledge is the aim of the teachers. The style of learning being multimodal, a well known Memletics questionnaire employing the seven modalities of learning has been used to understand the preferred learning style among the students of medical education. Objectives: To identify the preferred learning modality among the first year students of B.Sc. Nursing and to assess any gender variation in their preferences. Methods: 25 first year undergraduate nursing students of both the genders were taken. Their identity was noted and they were asked to fill in the Memletics questionnaire. Students were asked to select their best preferred answer and the results were scored with Memletics scoring chart and analysed statistically with SPSS software. Results: Mode distribution analysis of the preferred learning style was suggestive of social learning style to be more predominant among the students, followed with the physical and visual learning preferences. One way ANOVA test had no significance in the gender variation in the preferred learning style. Although the male students preferred social style and female students preferred visual style of learning. Conclusion: This social type of learning preference can be employed by the teaching faculty as small group discussion or interactive lecture sessions to make learning an interesting evolution.