Tailoring Teaching Instructions According to Student’s Different Learning Styles: Are We Hitting the Right Button?

To address the diverse preferred learning styles, one of the oft-cited recommendations for educatorsis to tailor teaching instructions accordingly. This pedagogy however, lacks scientific evidences.Furthermore, in medical curriculum, tailoring instructions according to preferred learning styles isno...

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Main Author: Chew, Keng Sheng
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Language:English
Published: 2016
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description To address the diverse preferred learning styles, one of the oft-cited recommendations for educatorsis to tailor teaching instructions accordingly. This pedagogy however, lacks scientific evidences.Furthermore, in medical curriculum, tailoring instructions according to preferred learning styles isnot pragmatic. This is because different subjects and in different settings matter may be best deliveredin specific delivery mode. Furthermore, patients’ presentations are often multi-sensorial. As such, theonus is on the students themselves to adjust the amount of learning efforts they put in according totheir preferred or not preferred learning styles.
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spelling unimas-142772016-11-14T09:02:59Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/14277/ Tailoring Teaching Instructions According to Student’s Different Learning Styles: Are We Hitting the Right Button? Chew, Keng Sheng R Medicine (General) To address the diverse preferred learning styles, one of the oft-cited recommendations for educatorsis to tailor teaching instructions accordingly. This pedagogy however, lacks scientific evidences.Furthermore, in medical curriculum, tailoring instructions according to preferred learning styles isnot pragmatic. This is because different subjects and in different settings matter may be best deliveredin specific delivery mode. Furthermore, patients’ presentations are often multi-sensorial. As such, theonus is on the students themselves to adjust the amount of learning efforts they put in according totheir preferred or not preferred learning styles. 2016 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/14277/1/455-1932-1-PB.pdf Chew, Keng Sheng (2016) Tailoring Teaching Instructions According to Student’s Different Learning Styles: Are We Hitting the Right Button? Education in Medicine Journal, 8 (3). ISSN 2180-1932 http://www.eduimed.com/ doi:10.5959/eimj.v8i3.455
spellingShingle R Medicine (General)
Chew, Keng Sheng
Tailoring Teaching Instructions According to Student’s Different Learning Styles: Are We Hitting the Right Button?
title Tailoring Teaching Instructions According to Student’s Different Learning Styles: Are We Hitting the Right Button?
title_full Tailoring Teaching Instructions According to Student’s Different Learning Styles: Are We Hitting the Right Button?
title_fullStr Tailoring Teaching Instructions According to Student’s Different Learning Styles: Are We Hitting the Right Button?
title_full_unstemmed Tailoring Teaching Instructions According to Student’s Different Learning Styles: Are We Hitting the Right Button?
title_short Tailoring Teaching Instructions According to Student’s Different Learning Styles: Are We Hitting the Right Button?
title_sort tailoring teaching instructions according to student’s different learning styles: are we hitting the right button?
topic R Medicine (General)
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