A Descriptive Study to Assess the Preferred Learning Styles of Nursing Students in A Selected Colleges at Mangalore

Reddy, Nageshwar Venkatesh

doi:10.21608/menj.2025.424805

A Descriptive Study to Assess the Preferred Learning Styles of Nursing Students in A Selected Colleges at Mangalore

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Nageshwar Venkatesh Reddy

Asst Professor and Head, Department of Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Al Baha University, Al Baha, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

10.21608/menj.2025.424805

Abstract

Abstract: A preferred learning style is a style in which the person can learn best, reflecting their strengths and weaknesses of the individual. To understand any material, we should use our senses, through sight, sound, touch, smell or taste. Hence this study was designed to assess the preferred learning styles of nursing students in a selected college at Mangalore. Kolb’s Learning inventory is used to collect data from 100 Nursing students from different nursing colleges and analyzed. The results show that each individual has their own type of learning style (Among the 1st year B. Sc. 21.05% of the student’s concrete experience is dominant, 68. 42% of the students’ concrete experience is intermediate and 10.53% of students have the lowest concrete experience). Learning style is a method in which each of us utilizes for a better understanding of the material. This has led to several studies which have extrapolated the different characteristics associated with how people receive, process and utilize information.

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