Medical education reform is underway, but the optimal course for change has yet to be seen. While planning for the redesign of a renal physiology course at the Duke School of Medicine, the authors used a Q-sort survey to assess students' attitudes and learning preferences to inform curricular change. The authors invited first-year medical students at the Duke School of Medicine to take a Q-sort...

• Introduction-brief description of the purpose of this paper. • Problem Statement-short statement on what research problem is described in this paper. • Literature Review Overview-brief description of the learning style theory, primarily Kolb's, review of the validity of the Kolb Learning Style Inventory, and review of literature where Kolb Learning style theory was applied to course design. •...

BACKGROUND Experienced trainers know that individual registrars react very differently to identical learning experiences generated during the year in practice. This divergence reflects differences in registrars' learning styles. Only one study of United Kingdom (UK) general practitioners' learning styles has been undertaken. Learning style theory predicts that matching learning preference with ...

Different formal learning models address different aspects of human learning. Below we compare Gold-style learning—modelling learning as a limiting process in which the learner may change its mind arbitrarily often before converging to a correct hypothesis—to learning via queries—modelling learning as a one-shot process in which the learner is required to identify the target concept with just o...

The present study has aimed to review the relationship between infomorphology of graduate students of educational sciences in the Islamic Azad University of Shiraz and their learning style. This study is an applied research in terms of its objectives and it is a descriptive – correlational research in terms of the process of the study. The statistical population of this study consists of gradua...