TITLE:
The Influence of Six-Year Medical Education on Learning Styles in Medical Students at Baskent University
AUTHORS:
Leyla Aydın, A. Şebnem Ilhan, Erhan Kızıltan, Nuray Yazıhan, A. Canan Yazıcı, Nimet Unay Gundogan
KEYWORDS:
Medical Education, Learning Styles, VARK Questionnaire, Unimodal Learning Model, Multimodal Learning Model
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Access Library Journal,
Vol.2 No.4,
April
27,
2015
ABSTRACT:
This study is designed to evaluate the difference between the first year and
the sixth year of medical faculty in Baskent University (n = 115) by using the
Turkish version of the VARK questionnaire. In this survey, VARK questionnaire,
which determines a person’s sensory modality by describing visual, aural,
read/write, and kinesthetic preference, is used. In this study, unimodal model
is the most commonly preferred learning model in the first-grade students
(75.4%), and aural type is dominant style (31.9%) changing to the multimodal
(67.4%) and mostly quad-modal learning style (17.4%) in thesixth-year students. There is no gender difference. Learning preferences can differ
among students of different faculties. Awareness on the learning preferences of
the students facilitates the learning process of the students, and also
simplifies the teaching process of the educator in developing appropriate
learning methods.