Abstract
BackgroundThe authors’ medical school has adopted an inverted classroom model (ICM) for physiology classes. This study aimed to determine students’ learning styles and investigate the relationship between learning style and satisfaction with different instruction approaches and components of the ICM.MethodsOne hundred and twenty-one second-year dental students participated in this study, which had a 77.6% participation rate. The Kolb Learning Style Inventory, a sociodemographic questionnaire, and a satisfaction survey were administered after course completion.ResultsIn both the traditional and ICM classes, most of the participants were convergers (56.9 and 54%) and assimilators (20.7 and 25.4%), and the rest of the participants were accommodators (15.5 and 12.7%) and divergers (6.9 and 8%). Learning style did not influence participants’ satisfaction and did not predict their satisfaction with the traditional and ICM approaches. The satisfaction scores for the four components of the ICM were not significantly different by learning style. The mean satisfaction scores of the ICM approach were higher than those of the traditional approach in all learning style groups. All of the participants in the ICM class were more satisfied with the online and teacher-student interaction components than the student group discussion and presentation components.ConclusionsLearning style may not be a potential contributing factor for optimizing the implementation of the ICM. Instead of focusing on learning styles, further research must investigate how to design more efficient online courses, determine appropriate levels of learning materials, provide more online instructional interaction, and help students overcome their feelings of fear.
Highlights
The authors’ medical school has adopted an inverted classroom model (ICM) for physiology classes
By using Kolb’s Learning Style Inventory (LSI), our findings showed that, both in the traditional and ICM classes, most of the participants were convergers (56.9 and 54%) and assimilators (20.7 and 25.4%) who preferred to learn by forming abstractions, which is consistent with the results of some studies conducted among medical students and what would be expected in the area of natural sciences [23,24,25]
The results of our study showed that learning styles did not influence participants’ satisfaction with the instruction approach in the traditional or ICM classes
Summary
The authors’ medical school has adopted an inverted classroom model (ICM) for physiology classes. Medical schools have started to adopt new teaching methods, such as the inverted classroom model (ICM), to train medical students to be effective self-learners. Wang and Liu BMC Medical Education (2019) 19:315 lack of evidence to support it [7,8,9] Despite this lack of evidence, there is a widespread belief about the value of the use of learning styles in education [9]. Some studies have demonstrated the popularity of the use of learning styles among school teachers, including higher education faculty [10,11,12]. As a first step towards exploring the possibility of solving this problem, we aim to validate the ability of learning style instruments to improve the quality of the ICM
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