ASSESSMENT OF LEARNING STYLES OF UNDERGRADUATE MEDICAL STUDENTS & ITS ASSOCIATION WITH THE PREVIOUS ACHIEVEMENT

Dr.M.Muhil; Dr.Umapathy Sembian; D.Priyanka

Volume : IX, Issue : III, March - 2019

ASSESSMENT OF LEARNING STYLES OF UNDERGRADUATE MEDICAL STUDENTS & ITS ASSOCIATION WITH THE PREVIOUS ACHIEVEMENT

Dr. M. Muhil, Dr. Umapathy Sembian, D. Priyanka

Abstract :

Excellence in Medical education is an essential effort than a milestone which has extensive syllabus that has to be learnt in a stipulated time period (Ahmad CN et.al. 2017)2. Learning style is the adopted sensory modality to analyse and interpret information (Slater JA et.al. 2007)4.This study aimed to assess the different types of learners & its association with previous outcome conducted in Medical education unit in Trichy SRM Medical college Hospital & Research center, Trichy. This study conducted with the undergraduate medical students of both sex from preclinical department (n=100) after obtaining the IEC & consent from the study participants. After collecting the Socio demographic data like Board of syllabus, marks obtained in 12th standard and NEET. Learning style of students were assessed by giving them the instrument – VARK Questionnaire7 (version7.1) which consists of 16 questions (The acronym of VARK – visual, Aural, Read/write and Kinesthetic sensory modalities.) and analyzed by Descriptive statistics, Unpaired t test and one way Annova . The percentage of learning style preferences were as follows, multimodal learners–45%, bimodal learners–30% and unimodal learners–25%. The learning style was compared with the previous achievements and revealed that multimodal learners were found to be the high achievers than the unimodal learners. Assessment of learning style revealed that the high achievers are multimodal learners from CBSE board & we can motivate the students by suitable teaching method for the different types of learners by giving appropriate attention to the slow learners and the outcome can be compared in summative Assessments at the end.