The Learning Style and Flexibility of allied health students: Groundwork for Custom-made Learning Resource

Abstract

In order to understand the overall learning style, learning flexibility and its influencing factors of medical students, this study adopted Kolb Learning Style Scale 4.0 to conduct a questionnaire survey on related questions in a medical college in China. The results show that imagining, experiencing and balancing are three kinds of learning styles of medical students, and the dominant learning styles of girls and boys are significantly different. The study flexibility of medical students is higher on the whole, and the study flexibility of male students is significantly higher than that of female students, and that of students over 18 years old is significantly higher than that of students under 18 years old. These research results are of great significance for the customization of learning resources based on students' learning styles and the enhancement of medical students' professional skills and employment competitiveness.