TIP FAKÜLTESİ ÖĞRENCİLERİNİN ÖĞRENME STİLLERİNİN BELİRLENMESİ

Aim: Aim of the current study is to reveal the learning styles of students at 3 medial schools applying different curricula in Turkey and the difference between their learning styles in terms of these curricula. Material Method: All of the Year I and Year II students at 3 medical schools applying different curricula; Hybrid, Integrated and Problem Based Learning (PBL) were chosen (n=1027). To reveal the students’ learning styles, Kolb’s Learning Styles Inventory and another questionnaire seeking demographic characteristics were used in September 2008. Results: According to the questionnaire related to demographic characteristics, no difference between the students at different schools was found. Learning Styles Inventory was filled out by 93.3% of all students. Most of them were assimilators (54.5%) and divergers (33.1%). We found that there was a significant difference between learning styles of Year I students learning in different curricula particularly in Hybrid curriculum (p