Another analysis method of VARK questionnaire results based on medical students in shanghai and it's empirical application / 中华医学教育探索杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To make up for losing more information of original classification method of VARK questionnaire author ( especially for mixed styles ) , and put another analytical method based on"whether contain or not"principle and put it in empirical analysis and application. Methods The students in 4 medial colleges in Shanghai were surveyed with VARK 7.0 version in May, 2017. 4488 questionnaires were sent out and 4054 were effectively returned (90.3％). Statistical analyses were done with SPSS 20.0 software and the enumeration data were compared by chi-square test. Results ①The percentage of con-taining"V"type of Sensory Learning Styles in the whole students was 44.8％(n=1815), which had no statis-tical significance in different college levels, college sorts, genders, specialties and whether they were military academy students or not (χ2=5.958, 0.257, 1.386, 5.922, 4.146; P=0.051, 0.612, 0.239, 0.052, 0.042), while there was significantly statistical difference in data among students of different grades ( χ2=13.400;P=0.009).②The percentage of containing"A"type was 57.1％(n=2313), which had no statistical significance in different genders, specialties, grades and whether they were military academy students (χ2=0.536, 4.038, 8.274, 4.256;P=0.464, 0.133, 0.082, 0.039), while there was still statistical significance in different college levels and sorts (χ2=10.516, 10.447;P=0.005, 0.001). ③The percentage of containing"R"type was 53.9％(n=2185), which had no statistical significance in different college levels, college sorts, genders, specialties, grades and whether they were academy students (χ2=4.563, 0.417, 0.228, 0.433, 2.136, 0.863; P=0.102, 0.518, 0.633, 0.805, 0.711, 0.353). ④The percentage of containing "K" type was 64.8％ (n=2625), which had no statistical significance in different college levels, college sorts, specialties, grades and whether they were academy students (χ2=3.680, 3.391, 1.070, 9.708, 2.711; P=0.159, 0.066, 0.586, 0.046, 0.100), while there was still statistical significance in different genders (χ2=6.789;P=0.009).⑤According to original clas-sification of VARK questionnaire author, the percentage of mixed styles were at the most (57.0％), followed by"K"(17.3％), and then"A" (11.2％) and"R" (10.0％), and the least was"V" (4.5％), which had no sta-tistical significance in different college levels, college sorts, genders, specialties, grades and whether they were academy students (χ2=6.044, 18.045, 8.575, 5.955, 28.866, 11.622; P=0.196, 0.021, 0.073, 0.652, 0.025, 0.020). Conclusion The analytical classification method based on"whether to contain" is a scientific improvement and beneficial supplement to the original classification method of the author of VARK scale in practical application because it embodies the mixed style and contains more comprehensive and accurate information. And through the empirical test, it verifies that medical students have distinctive sensory learn-ing styles.