To determine thelearning style of first year studentsin basic medical education

Abstract

Background: Main role of organizing a course for teachers is to understand their students’ learning style and their personal characters.To improve student motivation and performance, teaching methods need to be adapted to the learning style of their students. Method: Data collected from the VAK standard self-assessment questionnaire developed by Victoria Chislett to determine student’s learning styles. Also we have done all results and analyses by SPSS 21. Results: Visual learning (38.5%) has the highest percentage of students' learning style. However, the combination of listening and kinesthetic style is the lowest (3.1%). When it comes to learning styles by gender, there is no significant difference between both sexes, and visual learning styles predominate. But there was low percentage of students who has combined skills such as Visual with Kinesthetic and Auditory with Kinesthetic. There were no statistically significant differences in learning styles compared to the age and sex of the graduated from high school.