Yuemin Ding

Work place: Department of Biotechnology, School of Medicine and Life Science, Zhejiang University City College, Hangzhou, China

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Learning Preferences to Physiology of Undergraduate Students in a Chinese Medical School

By Yuemin Ding Jianxiang Liu Hong Ruan Xiong Zhang

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijeme.2012.02.01, Pub. Date: 29 Feb. 2012

Students learning may be classified according to the sensory modalities using VARK instrument, which categorizes learning modes as visual (V), auditory (A), reading-writing (R), or kinesthetic (K). We administered the VARK questionnaire to our second-year medical students, and 98 of 133 students (74%) returned the completed questionnaire. Only 14.3% of the students preferred a single mode of information presentation. In contrast, most students (85.7%) preferred multiple modes of information presentation. Knowing the students preferred modes and using web-based learning system may help the instructors to tailor to the student's individual preference in the teaching of medical science.

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