Difference in learning style preference of medical,dental and B pharma students
Keywords:
Dental, medical, B pharmaceutical, learning style and VARKAbstract
Introduction: The aim of the study was to analyze the learning styles and the difference if any
between medical, dental and B Pharmaceutical students.
Methods: 112 medical, 110dental and 106 B pharma students were studied in each group.
Each of the group completed the VARK (visual, auditory, read-write and kinesthetic)
questionnaire and their learning style was analyzed. Then the values of each group were
compared to get the result. The goal was to identify the preferred learning pattern and to
attempt to improve the teaching methods.
Results: statistically one way ANOVA was applied to study the data generated. The results
reflect that there is predominance of kinesthetic learners individually though not significant.
When multimodal group as a whole compared to unimodal groups there was significant
difference seen.
Conclusion: This study corroborates the findings of previous studies done on this subject.
The study also underlines the need to adopt varied pattern of teaching to cater different
groups of learner in different as well as different groups.
