Open AccessThe Learning Styles and the Preferred Teaching–Learning Strategies of First Year Medical Students
Author(s) -
Poonam Kharb,
Prajna Paramita Samanta,
Manisha Jindal,
Vishram Singh
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of clinical and diagnostic research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2249-782X
pISSN - 0973-709X
DOI - 10.7860/jcdr/2013/5809.3090
Subject(s) - preference , learning styles , categorization , presentation (obstetrics) , psychology , mathematics education , teaching method , computer science , medicine , artificial intelligence , economics , radiology , microeconomics
The purpose of teaching is to facilitate learning and to encourage the learners to learn more effectively. The learning style is an individual's consistent way of perceiving, processing and retaining new information. Educational researchers have shown an increasing interest in the learning styles, the related instructional methods and the andrgogical teaching techniques. This interest is spurred by a desire to help the students to become capable and successful learners.