Continuing medical education sessions are often poorly attended by general practitioners. One reason may be that these traditionally consist of lectures by hospital consultants with a strong theoretical bias which may have little relevance to the learning needs of general practitioners. To compare the learning styles of teachers and learners in general practice, learning style questionnaires we...

Educational researchers postulate that every individual has a different learning style. The aim of this descriptive study was to determine the learning styles of first-year medical students using the Turkish version of the visual, auditory, read-write, kinesthetic (VARK) questionnaire. This study was performed at the Department of Medical Education of Erciyes University in February 2006. The Tu...

this study was an attempt to shed light on the relationship between perceptual learning styles and perceptual teaching styles of iranian efl learners and teachers. it further investigated the relationship between perceptual learning style and the age, gender, and proficiency of iranian efl learners. a total of 112 students and 23 teachers participated in this study. the data was collected using...

BACKGROUND Learning styles determine how people manage new information. Evidence-based medicine (EBM) involves the management of information in clinical practice. As a consequence, the way in which a person uses EBM can be related to his or her learning style. In order to tailor EBM education to the individual learner, this study aims to determine whether there is a relationship between an indi...

background     purpose:     methods     results     conclusion     key words     students .     journal of medical education winter and spring 2008; 12 (1,2): 17-22 : m edical e ducation , l earning m odels vark, v isual , a uditory , r ead -w rite , k inesthetic , s   : knowing that our students have different preferred learning modes will help medical instructors in our faculty develop approp...

Gender disparity within the academic discipline of engineering education is not an uncommon scenario. Trends show that engineering education disciplines are traditionally male dominated. Gender differences in problem solving patterns exist. Therefore, the discipline of engineering, being male dominated, is at a disadvantage. By increasing the enrollment of female students, gender specific probl...

The present paper focused on architecture students' learning styles based on Kolb's Experiential learning theory (ELT) and evaluated relationships between students' learning styles, degree of their academic achievement, gender, and duration of study in architecture. Based on the results of this research, divergent, accommodating, assimilating and convergent styles were the architecture students...

development of innovation and organizational learning in order to gain a sustainable competitive advantage and improve organizational performance needs appropriate circumstances under which management leadership styles remain an important factor. therefore, this study aimed to analyze the impact of leadership styles on organizational performance through innovation and learning that was conducte...

The use of information technology (IT) in education has accelerated rapidly. From the learner’s perspective, e-learning is self-service and allows an individual great flexibility and control as well as access to hyperlinked interactive multimedia contents while learning at preferred paces and times. Prior information systems (IS) research has investigated different aspects of e-learning; howeve...