Assessment of Teaching Method Preferences among Dental and Medical Students: Teaching Method Preferences among Dental and Medical Students

Background: Student learning is very important for designing course study. Recognizing student learning styles, educators are able to build a better framework for more efficient and desirable teaching methods. Recently, there is a widespread interest in the evaluation of the learning technique since its adoption. Objectives: To assess the teaching method preferences among dental and medical students. Methodology: This is a descriptive cross‑sectional questionnaire study using visual, auditory, reading‑writing, and kinesthetic questionnaire among Medical and dental students. Results: In the present study according to VARK it was found that moststudents preferred a single mode of ( uni modal )learning style, about 77% among medical and 83% in dental students. Followed by bi modal learning system, that is 22% in medical and 15 % in dental students and tri modal is found to be the least preferred among medical students about 1% followed by quad modal 1%among dental students. Among medical students A- aural method was found to be the most preferred one with a mean of 2.80 followed by K- kinaesthetic with a mean of 1.89 ,R/W –reading or writing with a mean of 1.65 .Among dental students, A- auditory was the most preferred method with a mean of 2.40 ,followed by K- kinaesthetic with a mean of 2.01  and 1.67for R/W- reading or writing Conclusion: The results of the study concluded that aural mode of teaching was most preferred one followed by kinestheic mode. The visual mode was found to be least preferred among both dental & medical students. Most of the students selected more than one learning preference or have multimodal preferences