VARK - Pattern of Learning Style Preferences among Students

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VARK - Pattern of Learning Style Preferences among Students

Journal Title: National Journal of Research in Community Medicine - Year 2015, Vol 4, Issue 2

Abstract

Introduction: Student population is diverse in age, experiences, cultural background, level of preparedness, as well as learning styles. This diversity poses one of the most serious challenges that educators face today in improving the level of student satisfaction with the available curriculum and learning environment. An awareness of the differences among students and an understanding of the ways students learn are the first few steps among many other steps that are required for ensuring better facilitation of learning. Objectives: 1) To study the pattern of learning style preferences among undergraduate students using the VARK Questionnaire and 2) To compare the same among students of different professional courses. Materials and Methods: A descriptive cross sectional study was conducted during the month of April and May 2015 among first year students from three professional courses namely Medicine, Dentistry and Engineering. Paper copies of the VARK questionnaire were used for data collection and were administered to the students in a regular class after taking an informed consent. The responses were scored by the researchers according to the VARK questionnaire scoring chart which were sent to the copyright holder of the questionnaire for converting them into VARK categories.Out of the 2 algorithms assigned to each of the student, research algorithm was used for further analysis in our study and was done using statistical software package. Results: The present study revealed that there is no significant difference among learning styles of students from different courses. Analysis of learning styles showed that majority of the students were unimodal in their preference for learning and highest preference was for aural followed by kinesthetic in medicine and dentistry, and by visual in engineering field. Among those who were multimodal, majority used all the four modes, very few used bimodal and none used trimodal learning style in our study.

Authors and Affiliations

VijayKumar Mane, Jyoti Markam, Roseline F Williams, Mahendrakumar Khobragad

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