Abdollahimohammad Abdolghani, Ja'afar Rogayah
Nursing & Midwifery School, Zabol University of Medical Sciences, Zabol, Iran.
Department of Medical Education, School of Medical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kubang Kerian, Malaysia.
J Educ Eval Health Prof. 2014 Nov 24;11:30. doi: 10.3352/jeehp.2014.11.30. eCollection 2014.
Learning style preferences vary within the nursing field and there is no consensus on a predominant learning style preference in nursing students. The current study compared the learning style preferences of nursing students at two universities in Iran and Malaysia.
A purposive sampling method was used to collect data from the two study populations. Data were collected using the Learning Style Scale (LSS), which is a valid and reliable inventory. The LSS consists of 22 items with five subscales including perceptive, solitary, analytic, imaginative, and competitive. The questionnaires were distributed at the end of the academic year during regular class time for optimum response. The Mann-Whitney U-test was used to compare the learning style preferences between the two study populations.
A significant difference was found in perceptive, solitary, and analytic learning styles between two groups of nursing students. However, there was no significant difference in imaginative and competitive learning styles between the two groups. Most of the students were in the middle range of the learning styles.
There were similarities and differences in learning style preferences between Zabol Medical Sciences University (ZBMU) and University Sains Malaysia (USM) nursing students. The USM nursing students were more sociable and analytic learners, whereas the ZBMU nursing students were more solitary and perceptive learners.
护理领域内的学习风格偏好各不相同，对于护理专业学生占主导地位的学习风格偏好尚无共识。本研究比较了伊朗和马来西亚两所大学护理专业学生的学习风格偏好。
采用立意抽样法从两个研究群体中收集数据。使用学习风格量表（LSS）收集数据，该量表是一份有效且可靠的问卷。LSS由22个项目组成，包括五个分量表，即感知型、独立型、分析型、想象型和竞争型。问卷在学年末的正常上课时间发放，以获得最佳回复率。采用曼-惠特尼U检验比较两个研究群体之间的学习风格偏好。
两组护理专业学生在感知型、独立型和分析型学习风格上存在显著差异。然而，两组在想象型和竞争型学习风格上没有显著差异。大多数学生处于学习风格的中等水平。
扎博勒医科大学（ZBMU）和马来西亚理科大学（USM）护理专业学生在学习风格偏好上既有相似之处，也有不同之处。USM的护理专业学生更善于社交且偏向分析型学习，而ZBMU的护理专业学生则更倾向于独立型和感知型学习。
