Dissimilarities In Learning Style

Introduction

Learning can be shown to have occurred when students learn new material, knowledge or when they can use a new expertise.1, 2 It is a never-ending lifetime process, best accomplished through real life experience. Experienced teachers identify that each student responds very differently to the same learning experiences during their period of study in the dental college. This divergence indicates dissimilarities in the students’ learning style, defined as ‘an individual’s characteristic, but probably flexible way of interacting with a learning environment.3 One of the advantage in recognizing students’ learning individualities is that it may lead to enhancement in areas such as designing of course.4 An essential key to confidently

One study did not find any relationship between years of study and learning style preference.20 While in another study, it was found that dissimilarities in learning style preference occur and that these preferences change over time, which may be linked to the personal maturing of students.21 Lecturers also differ in their methods or style of teaching or delivering lectures. When the learning style of the learner is not well-matched with the teaching style of lecturer, difficulties in educational accomplishments may occur. Aligning teaching and assessment methods with learning styles will ,however, not solve all classroom conflicts, with factors such as classroom environment, past educational background, inspiration, gender and multiethnic issues additionally influencing the learning process.17 In one of the research conducted by Randall et al. (1995) it was suggested that although it

This explains the difference among students with same learning styles. There are numerous individual differences when experience, skillfulness level and knowledge are considered.17 When students are familiar regarding their own learning style (most prevalent), then, they can also work to adapt to less prevalent learning