Academic success in first-year college science coursework can strongly influence future career paths and usually includes a solid performance in introductory biology. We wanted to know whether factors affecting biology student performance might include learning style preferences and one’s ability and confidence in self-assessing those learning preferences in order to engage in appropriate study...

Wehrwein EA, Lujan HL, DiCarlo SE. Gender differences in learning style preferences among undergraduate physiology students. Adv Physiol Educ 31: 153–157, 2007; doi:10.1152/advan.00060.2006.— Students have individual learning style preferences including visual (V; learning from graphs, charts, and flow diagrams), auditory (A; learning from speech), read-write (R; learning from reading and writi...

Introduction: Educators need to be aware of different learningstyles to effectively tailor instructional strategies and methodsto cater to the students’ learning needs and support a conductivelearning environment. The VARK [an acronym for visual (V),aural (A), read/write (R) and kinesthetic (K)] instrument isa useful model to assess learning styles. The aim of this studywas to use the VARK ques...

Students have individual learning style preferences including visual (V; learning from graphs, charts, and flow diagrams), auditory (A; learning from speech), read-write (R; learning from reading and writing), and kinesthetic (K; learning from touch, hearing, smell, taste, and sight). These preferences can be assessed using the VARK questionnaire. We administered the VARK questionnaire to under...

Urval RP, Kamath A, Ullal S, Shenoy AK, Shenoy N, Udupa LA. Assessment of learning styles of undergraduate medical students using the VARK questionnaire and the influence of sex and academic performance. Adv Physiol Educ 38: 216–220, 2014; doi:10.1152/advan.00024.2014.— While there are several tools to study learning styles of students, the visual-aural-read/write-kinesthetic (VARK) questionnai...

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...