A Longitudinal Study in Learning Preferences and Academic Performance in First Year Medical School

Autor/inn/en	Hu, Yenya; Gao, Hong; Wofford, Marcia M.; Violato, Claudio
Titel	A Longitudinal Study in Learning Preferences and Academic Performance in First Year Medical School
Quelle	In: Anatomical Sciences Education, 11 (2018) 5, S.488-495 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1935-9772
DOI	10.1002/ase.1757
Schlagwörter	Longitudinal Studies; Medical Education; Neurosciences; Medical Students; Correlation; Cognitive Style; Academic Achievement; Anatomy; Cytology; Student Attitudes; Achievement Gains; Learning Processes; Academic Advising + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Medizinische Ausbildung; Neuroscience; Neurowissenschaften; Neurowissenschaft; Korrelation; Cognitive styles; Kognitiver Stil; Schulleistung; Anatomie; Zytologie; Schülerverhalten; Achievement gain; Leistungssteigerung; Learning process; Lernprozess; Akademischer Rat
Abstract	This is a longitudinal study of first year medical students that investigates the relationship between the pattern change of the learning preferences and academic performance. Using the visual, auditory, reading-writing, and kinesthetic inventory at the beginning of the first and second year for the same class, it was found that within the first year, 36% of the class remained unimodal (single) modality learners (SS), 14% changed from unimodal to multimodality learners (SM), 27% changed from multimodality to unimodal modality learners (MS) and 21% remained as multimodality learners (MM). Among the academic performance through subsequent didactic blocks from Clinical Anatomy, Cell and Subcellular Processes to Medical Neuroscience during first year, the SM group made more significant improvement compared to the SS group. Semi-structured interview results from the SM group showed that students made this transition between the Clinical Anatomy course and the middle of the Medical Neuroscience course, in an effort to improve their performance. This study suggests that the transition from unimodal to multimodality learning among academically struggling students improved their academic performance in the first year of medical school. Therefore, this may be considered as part of academic advising tools for struggling students to improve their academic performances. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01