Learning style preferences among medical students in the College of Medicine, University of Bisha, Saudi Arabia (2018)

Figures & data

Figure 1 The distribution of learning styles among medical students (n=136), College of Medicine, University of Bisha, Saudi Arabia, 2018.

Abbreviations: V, visual; A, aural; R, read/write; K, kinesthetic; Unimodal, unimodal pattern of learning style; Multimodal, multimodal pattern of learning style.

Figure 2 The distribution of learning styles in the academic levels of medical students (n=136), College of Medicine, University of Bisha, Saudi Arabia, 2018.

Abbreviations: V, visual; A, aural; R, read/write; K, kinesthetic; Multimodal, multimodal pattern of learning style.

Table 1 The relation between learning style and academic level among medical students (n=136) College of medicine, University of Bisha, Saudi Arabia, 2018

	Null hypothesis	Test	Sig	Decision
1	The distribution of V is the same across the academic level	Independent – samples Kruskal–Wallis test	0.326	Retain the null hypothesis
2	The distribution of A is the same across the academic level	Independent – samples Kruskal–Wallis test	0.033	Reject the null hypothesis
3	The distribution of R is the same across the academic level	Independent – samples Kruskal–Wallis test	0.555	Retain the null hypothesis
4	The distribution of K is the same across the academic level	Independent – samples Kruskal–Wallis test	0.017	Reject the null hypothesis
5	The distribution of multimodal is the same across the academic level	Independent – samples Kruskal–Wallis test	0.214	Retain the null hypothesis

Notes: Asymptotic significances are displayed. The significance level is 0.05.

Abbreviations: V, visual; A, aural; R, read/write; K, kinesthetic; Multimodal, multimodal pattern of learning style.

Figure 3 Learning styles and the GPA of medical students (n=136), College of Medicine, University of Bisha, Saudi Arabia, 2018.

Abbreviations: V, visual; A, aural; R, read/write; K, kinesthetic; Unimodal, unimodal pattern of learning style; Multimodal, multimodal pattern of learning style.