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Learning Style Adopted by Post Graduate Nursing Students of Selected Nursing Colleges of Dakshina Kannada and the Strategies to Improve the Learning Styles of Learners
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Learning involves the acquisition of knowledge. This has learning implications towards how to teach, present information or to evaluate the learners in class room as well as during their clinical exposure. This evaluation process shouldn't be a mere rote assessment. It should focus on utilization of acquired knowledge. The learner receives and takes in information in different ways. The learning style adapted by learner would be different. Learning styles adopted by the post graduate nursing students of D Karnataka was assessed using a learning style inventory instrument. The study findings revealed that majority of the students adopted surface learning approaches.
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Learning Style, Post Graduate Students, Selected Colleges of Nursing, Dakshina Kannada, Strategies
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