How Learning Styles and Preferences of First-Year Nursing and Midwifery Students Change

Autor/inn/en	Mitchell, Eleanor K. L.; James, Santhamma; D'Amore, Angelo
Titel	How Learning Styles and Preferences of First-Year Nursing and Midwifery Students Change
Quelle	In: Australian Journal of Education, 59 (2015) 2, S.158-168 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0004-9441
DOI	10.1177/0004944115587917
Schlagwörter	Cognitive Style; College Freshmen; Nursing Students; Obstetrics; Preferences; Attitude Change; Measures (Individuals); Pretests Posttests; Foreign Countries; Australia; Learning Style Inventory + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Cognitive styles; Kognitiver Stil; Studienanfänger; Geburtshilfe; Attitudinal change; Einstellungsänderung; Messdaten; Ausland; Australien
Abstract	It is important that educators understand learning styles as an evolving individual characteristic. We investigate the changes in learning styles and preferences of first-year undergraduate nursing/midwifery students after six months of preliminary testing. Curry's 'onion ring model' proposes a stable inner 'Information processing' style (assessed by instruments such as Kolb Learning Style Inventory) compared to the outer 'Instructional preference' style (assessed by the VARK (Visual/Aural/Read--Write/Kinaesthetic) questionnaire), which is more easily influenced by external factors. Therefore, re-examining students after one semester of teaching should result in an increase in multimodal VARK learning with lesser changes to the LSI [Learning Style Inventory] results. A cross-sectional survey with pre-post design (n = 96) showed 45% of students remaining in the same VARK mode, 30% becoming more multimodal and 25% showing changes. Surprisingly, the LSI questionnaire showed similar results with 45% of students remaining in the same learning modality and 55% of students changing. This research highlights the dynamic changes within students' information processing and instructional preferences. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01