An investigation into whether nurse teachers take into account the individual learning styles of their students when formulating teaching strategies.
Many factors have an effect on ways students learn, but differences in learning styles may not be reflected in the way they are taught. A small study of the learning styles of 119 students and 13 nurse teachers was carried out as part of a Certificate of Education Course. In addition a short questionnaire was used to determine teachers preferred teaching styles. The data collected demonstrated that the groups sampled did not express a very strong preference for any one learning style, but for a combination of styles as did the teachers sampled. The author concludes that nurse teachers should examine more closely the reasons why they favour one strategy over another. This in turn should make learning more challenging and rewarding for the students and teachers.
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D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D013332:Student Dropouts / Q000523:psychology; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*