Raghavan Divya, Amirtharaj Anandhi Deva
Maternal and Child Health Department, College of Nursing, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman.
Adult Health and Critical Care Department, College of Nursing, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman.
J Educ Health Promot. 2025 Jul 4;14:261. doi: 10.4103/jehp.jehp_1629_24. eCollection 2025.
The emergence of COVID-19 has revolutionized the instructional strategies practiced in the education system with the sudden dominance of E-learning strategies that broke the myths of impossible online modes of teaching. The main Aim of the study was to investigate the learning styles preferences and its impact among the generation Z nursing students on their academic success.
For this cross-sectional descriptive survey design, 249 nursing students were selected from a university in the Sultanate of Oman. Data was collected from February 2021 until September 2021 using a five-point Likert scale questionnaire about printed and digital resources. Descriptive statistical analysis using mean, median, standard deviation, and analytical statistics using ANOVA and Pearson's correlation at < 0.0.5 was applied.
The study participants indicated 70.7% as female students, with the majority of students (75.1%) spending between less than one hour and up to 3 hours per day and with (61.4%) of students preferring printed materials over onscreen for academic purposes. Among the digital devices, Laptops (41.8%) remain the most preferred device. 49.8% of students reported reading hard copies as easier in comparison to the 32.5% for onscreen reading. A significant positive correlation was observed between gender and hard-copy textbook preference (0.264, = 0.000) and between choice of reading for academic purposes and preference to read hard-copy textbooks (0.264, = 0.000).
In conclusion, understanding and addressing diverse learning styles is essential for policymakers and educators to foster effective education systems to identify a responsive approach to learning style to improve educational outcomes in this dynamic world.
新冠疫情的出现彻底改变了教育系统中所采用的教学策略，电子学习策略突然占据主导地位，打破了在线教学不可能实现的神话。本研究的主要目的是调查Z世代护理专业学生的学习风格偏好及其对学业成绩的影响。
对于这项横断面描述性调查设计，从阿曼苏丹国的一所大学选取了249名护理专业学生。2021年2月至2021年9月期间，使用一份关于印刷资源和数字资源的五点李克特量表问卷收集数据。应用了使用均值、中位数、标准差的描述性统计分析，以及使用方差分析和皮尔逊相关性（<0.05）的分析性统计。
研究参与者表明女生占70.7%，大多数学生（75.1%）每天花费不到一小时至最多3小时，并且61.4%的学生出于学术目的更喜欢印刷材料而非屏幕材料。在数字设备中，笔记本电脑（41.8%）仍然是最受欢迎的设备。49.8%的学生报告称阅读纸质版更容易，相比之下，屏幕阅读的比例为32.5%。观察到性别与纸质版教科书偏好之间存在显著正相关（0.264，=0.000），以及出于学术目的的阅读选择与阅读纸质版教科书的偏好之间存在显著正相关（0.264，=0.000）。
总之，对于政策制定者和教育工作者来说，理解和应对多样化的学习风格对于构建有效的教育系统至关重要，以便在这个动态的世界中确定一种适应学习风格的响应式方法来提高教育成果。
