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Characteristics of Medical Students' Learning Styles and Their Relationships to GPA

Mira Kim1, Sowon Kim2, Jungmo Lee3, Ducksun Ahn2, Youngmee Lee2
KJME 2006;18(2):133-140. Published online: August 31, 2006
1Research Center of Applied Psychology, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea.
2Department of Psychology, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea.
3Department of Medical Education, College of Medicine, Korea University, Korea.
Corresponding author:  Mira Kim, Tel: 02)760-0706, Fax: 02)760-0705, 
Email: psymira@skku.edu
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Abstract

PURPOSE
The present study examines the characteristics of medical students' learning styles and their relationships to the GPA.
METHODS
One hundred 2nd year medical students took the revised version of the Index of Learning Styles (ILS) by Felder-Silverman, which was computerized. The ILS classifies individual preferences for information processing into 16 categories based on four dichotomous dimension: active/reflective, sensing/intuitive, sequential/global, visual/verbal. The GPA from the previous semester was used.
RESULTS
The most frequent learning styles were reflective, sensing, sequential, and visual, covering 25% of the class. For the relationship with the GPA, we compared group means. The sensing students showed significantly higher grades than the intuitive students. Other than this result, there seemed to be no particular relationship between learning styles and GPA. This relationship should be further studied.
CONCLUSIONS
In this study, medical students were categorized based on individual differences in information processing. Learning styles are expected to be helpful in designing effective learning strategies and thereby enhancing medical students' performance.

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Characteristics of Medical Students' Learning Styles and Their Relationships to GPA
Korean J Med Educ. 2006;18(2):133-140.   Published online August 31, 2006
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3946/kjme.2006.18.2.133
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3946/kjme.2006.18.2.133
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