Authors: Jennifer C. Carulla RM, RN, PhD, Jocelyn B. Hipona RN, PhD.
Background and Objective: Exploration of the attitude towards learning and learning styles adopted by nursing students to support the improvement of nursing education today. Thus, the expected output of the assessment will be to enhance the instructional strategic plan in order to attain motivated, focused, organized and independent successful nurses in the future.
Methods: A descriptive comparative and correlational research design was undertaken to explore the implied and categorical extents of learning strategies as it evolved through encounters with nursing students. The research setting was held in different universities and colleges in the Philippines that offer Bachelor of Science in Nursing and comprised a sample of 326 nursing students from first year to fourth year. Data gathering includes survey through a standardized questionnaire.
Results: Most of the students’ utilized surface approach in their attitude towards learning; they tend to learn by means of rote or simple memorization without conceptualizing the idea because they are preoccupied to numerous activities in the nursing course. On the other hand, students’ learning styles vary from visual, auditory to tactile.
Conclusions: The study has the following measures that faculty may incorporate to improve the instructional strategies to students. Teachers should utilize varied teaching-learning strategies that cater to the different learning styles, interests, and intelligences of students to improve student engagement and learning. Thus, the study concludes that there is significant relationship between the attitudes towards learning in terms of surface approach and the auditory learning styles of the students. However, there is no significant relationship among students attitude towards learning and their learning style.
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