Learning styles of first-year medical students attending Erciyes University in Kayseri, Turkey.

@article{Baykan2007LearningSO,
  title={Learning styles of first-year medical students attending Erciyes University in Kayseri, Turkey.},
  author={Zeynep Baykan and Melis Naçar},
  journal={Advances in physiology education},
  year={2007},
  volume={31 2},
  pages={
          158-60
        }
}
Educational researchers postulate that every individual has a different learning style. The aim of this descriptive study was to determine the learning styles of first-year medical students using the Turkish version of the visual, auditory, read-write, kinesthetic (VARK) questionnaire. This study was performed at the Department of Medical Education of Erciyes University in February 2006. The Turkish version of the VARK questionnaire was administered to first-year medical students to determine… 
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