STUDY OF SENSORY LEARNING STYLES OF SECOND YEAR UNDERGRADUATE DENTISTRY STUDENTS AND ITS USE IN MICROBIOLOGY TEACHING

Anuradha Sharma; Anupriya Wadhwa

Volume : VI, Issue : XI, November - 2016

STUDY OF SENSORY LEARNING STYLES OF SECOND YEAR UNDERGRADUATE DENTISTRY STUDENTS AND ITS USE IN MICROBIOLOGY TEACHING

Anuradha Sharma, Anupriya Wadhwa

Abstract :

A student’s learning style is the preferred way in which information is processed and strategies are adopted for effective learning . The VARK survey instrument developed by Neil Fleming in 1987 in New Zealand , distributes the learning styles according to the sensory modes of perception i.e Visual / Aural / ReadWrite / Kinaesthetic . Objective : To know how students learn . Methods : This qualitative , questionnaire based study was conducted in Faculty of Dentistry Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi for II yr BDS students . The VARK questionnaire version 7.8 (2014) was used after taking online permission from Neil Fleming. During a Microbiology lecture hour . Result : 56.8% students were multimodal and 43.2% were unimodal. The VARK mean scores showed that Kinaesthetic preference ranked highest (8.06 ), followed by aural (5.43), read–write (4.77) and visual (4.70). Conclusion : The learning preference reflects a multimodal pattern .