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Learning style and academic performance among clinical years’ medical students
Nurinn Arina Mohamed Amin1, Nurnabilah Insyirah Mohd Nizman2, Zainal Nastaiin Zainal3, Muhammad Ammar Muhamad Razif4, Norhafizah Ab Manan5, Norlehan Abdul Samad6.
Introduction: Many kinds of research have documented the correlation between learning styles and academic performance among medical students. This study aims to assess the learning styles amongst clinical years’ medical students at the University of Cyberjaya and its relation with academic performance. Methods: A cross-sectional study was done among randomly selected 148, clinical years’ medical students of the University of Cyberjaya. A validated self-administered questionnaire was used to determine the learning style of the student. Results: This study revealed that 127 of the students (85.8%) had a unimodal style compared to the remaining 21 students (14.2%) had a multimodal learning style. Among the unimodal learners, more than half of the students were found to be visual learners (65.5%). Even though a higher percentage of students who are unimodal have good academic performance, it was found that a higher percentage of students that used a multimodal learning style had excellent academic performance (19%) compared to those who are unimodal learners (4%) (p-value of 0.026). Conclusion: A large percentage of students in this study are visual unimodal learners. There is a significant association between an individual’s learning style and their aca- demic performance. Awareness towards one’s learning style is important for them to improve their academic performance hence indirectly applying better skills in the hospital setting.
Affiliation:
- University of Cyberjaya, Persiaran Bestari, Cyber 11, 63000 Cyberjaya, Selangor, Malaysia
- University of Cyberjaya, Persiaran Bestari, Cyber 11, 63000 Cyberjaya, Selangor, Malaysia
- University of Cyberjaya, Persiaran Bestari, Cyber 11, 63000 Cyberjaya, Selangor, Malaysia
- University of Cyberjaya, Persiaran Bestari, Cyber 11, 63000 Cyberjaya, Selangor, Malaysia
- University of Cyberjaya, Persiaran Bestari, Cyber 11, 63000 Cyberjaya, Selangor, Malaysia
- Management & Science University, Off Persiaran Olahraga, Section 13, 40100 Shah Alam, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia
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MyJurnal (2021) |
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3 |
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0.000 |
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0 |
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Scopus 2020 |
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CiteScore (0.2) |
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Q4 (Medicine (all)) |
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SJR (0.144) |
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