Open AccessUnderstanding the Learning Styles of Physiotherapy Students
Author(s) -
Ruchi Desai,
Manali K Shah
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of health sciences and research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2249-9571
DOI - 10.52403/ijhsr.20210727
Subject(s) - medicine , preference , modalities , style (visual arts) , learning styles , diversity (politics) , medical education , treatment modality , physical therapy , psychology , mathematics education , surgery , social science , archaeology , sociology , anthropology , economics , history , microeconomics
Physiotherapy students have wide range of diversity in their learning preferences therefore this has been always a challenged for the teachers to meet their demands. Understanding learning style preference encourages both students and teachers to continuously update themselves resulting in greater educational satisfaction.Study was performed to find out differences of learning preferences from first to final year physiotherapy students of LJ Institute of physiotherapy, Ahmedabad, Gujarat. Total 220 physiotherapy students from all four years were invited to participate in study, out of which 161 students (male: 49, female: 112) voluntarily participated in study. A web-based survey was implemented in this study which included VARK questionnaire and we found 72.7% students have multimodal learning style and kinaesthetic was the preferred sensory modalities of learning for most of the years but final year also showed more aural learning. Most of the male students in our study showed kinaesthetic learning and previous year academic performance also has influence on learning preference.Key words: VARK, learning style, Physiotherapy.