Learning can be shown to have occurred when students learn new material, knowledge or can use a new expertise.1, 2 It is an unceasing lifetime process, best achieved through real life experience. Experienced teachers recognize that each student reacts very differently to the same learning experiences during their period of study in the dental college. This discrepancy indicates dissimilarities in the students’ learning style, defined as ‘an individual’s characteristic, but potentially flexible way of interacting with a learning environment.3 Recognizing students’ learning individualities may lead to improvement in areas such as designing of course.4 A fundamental key to positively inducing effective learning and student performance is in introducing
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This questionnaire is built on the earlier work of David Kolb.6 This author stated that learning styles mature as a result of inborn factors, prior experiences, and requirements of the surroundings in which the person lives. The LSQ was made commercially available in 1986 for business purpose in the UK. It was later translated to Spanish and was finally adapted for educational purpose.17 The LSQ is designed to assess the relative strengths of four different learning styles: Activist, Reflector, Theorist, and …show more content…
Data was collected between 1st January till 28th February, 2017 using Honey and Mumford’s Learning Style Questionnaire (LSQ). 700 questionnaires were distributed among various dental colleges in Karachi. Total Six hundred and four filled questionnaires were selected remaining ninety six were discarded, either they were incomplete or were not filled at all. Questionnaires were distributed according to the availability of classes. Students from first year till final year were given questionnaire at the end of the class, while, house officers and demonstrators were given questionnaire according to their availability. The bachelors of dental surgery takes four years to complete. Each class on average has 45 to 50 students. Students were briefed about the survey. No attempt was made to follow up with those students who were absent. It took approximately 20 minutes by each student to complete the questionnaire. Those who did not want to participate in this study or those who were absent were excluded from the
This questionnaire is built on the earlier work of David Kolb.6 This author stated that learning styles mature as a result of inborn factors, prior experiences, and requirements of the surroundings in which the person lives. The LSQ was made commercially available in 1986 for business purpose in the UK. It was later translated to Spanish and was finally adapted for educational purpose.17 The LSQ is designed to assess the relative strengths of four different learning styles: Activist, Reflector, Theorist, and …show more content…
Data was collected between 1st January till 28th February, 2017 using Honey and Mumford’s Learning Style Questionnaire (LSQ). 700 questionnaires were distributed among various dental colleges in Karachi. Total Six hundred and four filled questionnaires were selected remaining ninety six were discarded, either they were incomplete or were not filled at all. Questionnaires were distributed according to the availability of classes. Students from first year till final year were given questionnaire at the end of the class, while, house officers and demonstrators were given questionnaire according to their availability. The bachelors of dental surgery takes four years to complete. Each class on average has 45 to 50 students. Students were briefed about the survey. No attempt was made to follow up with those students who were absent. It took approximately 20 minutes by each student to complete the questionnaire. Those who did not want to participate in this study or those who were absent were excluded from the