Aim: Different students use different learning styles and acquire knowledge from various sources during their medical college learning journey. Every student has a preference for a certain sensory mode to receive and process all acquired information. Identifying learning styles among different students can help students try to strengthen their preferred learning style and improve other nonpreferred learning styles. Our objective is to assess the preferred sensory modality and the learning preferences by utilizing the VARK questionnaire in medical faculty students at Imam Mohammed Bin Saud Islamic University (IMBSU) and the influence of gender and its relation to academic achievements.
Methodology: A survey was distributed to medical students of IMBSU in Riyadh. VARK questionnaire was used to assess the learning preference. Other questions regarding demographic data were also included in the same questionnaire.
Results: Of the 146 students, 113 students completed the questionnaire. Of them, 95 (84.1%) were males, and 18 (15.9%) were females. The multimodal learning style was preferred by 70% of the respondents, with the remaining 30% having a unimodal style preference. The aural (A) and the kinesthetic (K) styles were the most preferred unimodal styles. Overall, the most common style was the quad-modal (VARK type 2) style, with 21.20% having this preference.
Conclusion: No statistically significant differences were observed between male and female students concerning their learning preferences. The participants’ preferred learning style or learning model was also observed to have no statistically significant impact on GPA and academic performance.

Keywords: learning styles, Saudi Arabia, medical students, VARK


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通过性别比较检查沙特大学医学生的学习方式

目标：不同的学生在医学院学习过程中使用不同的学习方式，并从各种来源获取知识。每个学生都偏好某种感官模式来接收和处理所有获得的信息。识别不同学生的学习方式可以帮助学生尝试加强他们喜欢的学习方式并改善其他非首选的学习方式。我们的目标是通过利用伊玛目穆罕默德·本·沙特伊斯兰大学 (IMBSU) 医学院学生的 VARK 问卷以及性别的影响及其与学术成就的关系来评估首选的感官方式和学习偏好。
方法：向利雅得 IMBSU 的医学生分发了一项调查。VARK问卷用于评估学习偏好。有关人口统计数据的其他问题也包含在同一份问卷中。
结果： 146 名学生中，113 名学生完成了问卷调查。其中男性95人（84.1%），女性18人（15.9%）。70% 的受访者偏爱多模态学习风格，其余 30% 的受访者偏爱单模态学习风格。听觉 (A) 和动觉 (K) 风格是最受欢迎的单峰风格。总体而言，最常见的风格是四模态（VARK 2 型）风格，有 21.20% 的人有这种偏好。
结论：在学习偏好方面，男女学生之间没有观察到统计学上的显着差异。还观察到参与者偏爱的学习方式或学习模式对 GPA 和学习成绩没有统计学上的显着影响。

关键词：学习方式，沙特阿拉伯，医学生，VARK