Learning Approaches and Styles among Indian Physiotherapy Undergraduate Students using VARK Questionnaire.
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Abstract
Material and Methods: We circulated a validated VARK (visual, auditory, read/write and kinesthetic) questionnaire along with the four keys (each for one question), amongst physiotherapy first year and final year students at Datta Meghe College of Physiotherapy, Wanadongri, Nagpur. Students were asked to select the any one option for all the questions.
Result: Out of total 150 students, 112 students; 62 (20 males, 42 females) 1st year B.P.Th and 50 (18 males and 32 females) final year B.P.Th students willingly participated in the study and they were asked to fill questionnaire. Majority of the student from both the first year and final year batch (55% & 71%) choose multimodal learning style. The most common multimodal learning style among first year batch was auditory and reading while auditory – reading and kinesthetic predominates among final year student.
Conclusion: With the shift of paradigm from traditional classroom to virtual learning the learning style reflects the multimodal rather than the uni-modal learning style.