The important factor for determining learning style is to establish a proper teaching strategy. Part of the bridge is to be able to understand the learners, the learning process, and how best the information can be conveyed to the learners in a simple manner. Teaching has been defined as a building bridge from the known to the unknown. Understanding a subject like anatomy is a very difficult task from student’s point of view. Hence, the aforementioned results may be suggestive of correlation between learning style and academic performance. There was no statistic difference in theory performance, however with respect to practicals, the ANOVA value was 5%. The student who scored highest in practical internal assessment was a multimodal learner and who scored least was a kinesthetic learner, The P value for theory was 0.773 and for practicals was 0.26, ANOVA for theory is 0.33 and for practicals is 0.057. ![]() The student who scored highest in theory internal assessment belonged to visual and kinesthetic type of learner, whereas who scored least was a kinesthetic learner. Three students were chronic absentees and were excluded from the study. Out of 97, 13 were visual, 25 were auditory, 5 were read/ write, 40 were kinesthetic, and 14 were multimodal type of learners. One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was done in five groups of learning styles. First internal marks of theory and practicals were collected. Visual, auditory, read/ write, kinesthetic, and multimodal, based on their scores obtained after administering VARK questionnaire. Students were categorized into five groups of learners: The study was conducted on 100 first-year MBBS students. ![]() ![]() The present study was done to understand the learning styles preferred by the students using VARK questionnaire and correlating learning styles with their academic performance. The Visual, Aural/Auditory, Reading/ write, Kinesthetic (VARK) instrument is easy to administer and can have an impact on the quality of learning environment. Learning styles are a key element for teachers for any given learning environment.
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