LEARNING STYLES AMONG YEAR 1 SEMESTER 1 NURSING STUDENTS IN COLLEGE OF NURSING KUBANG KERIAN, KELANTAN
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https://doi.org/10.31674/mjn.2019.v10i04.001Abstract
Introduction: Students learn in many ways. Some students are visual learners, while others are auditory or kinesthetic learners. The purpose of the study is to identify the learning style of the students and factors that influence their learning styles.
Methods: This is a descriptive study with cross-sectional design. Convenient sampling was used. In this study, a total of 51 nursing students were involved. A set of questionnaires using VARK (Visual; Auditory; Read/Write; Kinesthetic) inventory was used. Descriptive statistics and Chi-square test were use.
Results: The learning styles of the respondents were mostly kinesthetic learning style and auditory learning styles which is 14(27.5%) for both, ten respondent had combinations of various styles, seven respondents had read write learning style and six respondent had visual learning style which is 13.7% and 11.8% respectively. Chi-square test shows that there was significant difference between learning style and respondents’ demographic factors of previous school and number of siblings, where p-value <0.05. For others demographic variables, result was not statistically significant (p>0.05).
Conclusion: In order to achieve the goal of student learning it is important to use a combination of teaching methods and to make the classroom environment as stimulating and interactive as possible.
Keywords:
Learning Styles, Nursing Students, VARK InventoryDownloads
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