The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) has proved to be a useful instrument for understanding student learning preferences and has enable comparisons of the learning preferences for various personality types. Regarding learning styles, there is no one best combination of characteristics, since each preference has its own advantages and disadvantages. Therefore, it is a fallacy to think that pro...

Anumber of midwifery programmes that I have been involved with offer an interesting session, early on in the course, in which students undertake one or more exercises designed to help them identify their individual learning style and/or preferred ways of knowing. In theory, this enables the future midwife to gain knowledge of their personal idiosyncrasies and learning preferences, which can be ...

This study compared personality traits of students in five health professions. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator was completed by 1,508 osteopathic students, 654 pharmacy students, 165 physical therapy students, 211 physician assistant students, and 70 occupational therapy students. Comparing the extrovert/introvert dimension revealed that pharmacy students were more likely to score as introverte...

This paper describes a mechanism for providing hypertext documents that accommodate individual learner’s different needs. The customisation of the text can take account of a variety of factors, including the learner’s background, interests and preferred learning style. Central to the customisation is the user model that represents the learner’s preferences and knowledge. We describe the way tha...

This paper describes a mechanism for providing hypertext documents that accommodate individual user’s different needs. The customisation of the text can take account of a variety of factors, including the user’s background, interests and preferred learning style. We describe the way we have implemented this and applied it to customising a hypertext course for the C programming language. Central...

This paper explores the application of causal models to understanding data generated from a computer tutor. Mily’s World (http://users.wpi.edu/~dovan/coordinates.html) is a flash-based learning environment for coordinate geometry and featuring game-like properties such as a cover story and pictures. We were primarily interested in what class of students benefitted from this type of intervention...

the aim of this study was to compare three approaches of medical parasitological course. this cross sectional study carried out in 94 medical and pharmacy students. lecturer based learning, problem based learning, and combined approaches were used for teaching the parasitological course. kappa and spss16 were used to analysis. 82.9% of students were interested in lecturer based learning, 64.9% ...

this paper compared the efficacy of these two methods on retention, understanding and problem solving in the biology keeping in the mind the fact that student's learning style has a role as a moderator variable. the intervening effects on retention, understanding and problem solving were measured by two academic achievement tests that those have the confirmable validity and reliability indexes....

BACKGROUND To qualitatively explore physiotherapy students' perceptions of online e-learning for chronic disease management using a previously developed, innovative and interactive, evidence-based, e-learning package: Rheumatoid Arthritis for Physiotherapists e-Learning (RAP-eL). METHODS Physiotherapy students participated in three focus groups in Perth, Western Australia. Purposive sampling ...