A number of studies in traditional class based education show that students whose learning styles match with the instructional approach “tend to retain information longer, apply it more effectively, and have more effective post course attitudes towards the subject than do their counterparts who experience learning/teaching mismatch. Thus, the goals of a “good instructor” should be both to adapt...

Theories on learning styles and types have been integral to discussions on the basics of teaching for nearly 40 years. The learning style typology of Kolb divides learners into four groups (Diverger, Assimilator, Converger and Accomodator), which differ both in terms of their learning behaviour as well as personality and preferences. We studied the sense of coherence and burnout symptoms in med...

Slater JA, Lujan HL, DiCarlo SE. Does gender influence learning style preferences of first-year medical students? Adv Physiol Educ 31: 336–342, 2007; doi:10.1152/advan.00010.2007.—Students have specific learning style preferences, and these preferences may be different between male and female students. Understanding a student’s learning style preference is an important consideration when design...

Personalized recommender systems in e-learning environment make the learning process more effective and efficient. In this paper, we present a detailed knowledge-based system design for personalizing the e-learning material resources. Initially, the approach rates the different learning styles according to the learner personal data and preferences, and then it personalizes the learning material...

This study aimed to explore the effect of rote learning (word list learning) on boosting visual and auditory learners' vocabulary retention. To this end, the Oxford Placement Test (2007) was administered, in order to identify the learners' proficiency level. Then 31 subjects who were studying at the Iran Language Institute (ILI) in Bushehr, Iran, and belonged to available sampling were singled ...

OBJECTIVE The present study aimed to identify the most common learning preferences among the nursing students in Saudi Arabia and to investigate the associations of certain demographic variables with the learning preferences. METHODS All the undergraduate nursing students in the nursing college were requested to participate in this descriptive cross-sectional study. An Arabic version of the F...

This paper focuses on the prediction of student learning styles using data mining techniques within their institutions. This prediction was aimed at finding out how different learning styles are achieved within learning environments which are specifically influenced by already existing factors. These learning styles, have been affected by different factors that are mainly engraved and found wit...

BACKGROUND Identifying and employing appropriate learning styles could play an important role in selecting teaching styles in order to improve education. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to determine the relationship between learning styles preferences and gender, educational major and status in first year students at Isfahan University of Medical Sciences. PATIENTS AND METHODS A cross-sectional...