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MediSur

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FERNANDEZ GARCIA, Ariana; QUINONES LA ROSA, Ileana  y  LAM DIAZ, Rosa María. Learning styles and approaches in Dentistry students and their relationship with academic performance in Pharmacology. Medisur [online]. 2023, vol.21, n.5, pp. 949-959.  Epub 30-Oct-2023. ISSN 1727-897X.

Foundation:

the learning styles and approaches allow us to know how the student faces this process and the way in which they process the information that must be assimilated.

Objective:

to identify the learning styles and approaches used by Dentistry students and their relationship with academic performance in the Pharmacology discipline.

Methods:

a descriptive-cross-sectional study, with a qualitative-quantitative approach, carried out from November 2021 to January 2022. The non-probabilistic sample consisted of 28 students (90.3%) in the second year of the Dentistry course taught at the Havana Dentistry Faculty. Two instruments were applied to the participants: the Honey and Alonso questionnaire on learning styles and the Approaches and Inventory of Student Study Skills questionnaire. The dimensions of academic performance were excellent, good, and regular.

Results:

the very high/high preference predominated in the theoretical style (67.86%) and the moderate preference in the reflective style (67.86%). A significant relationship was found between the number of very high/high preference learning styles and academic performance (p=0.044), and between the reflective style and academic performance (p=0.024). Also, a significant relationship was found between academic performance and the strategic learning approach (p=0.008) and the preference for the transmission of information (p=0.028).

Conclusions:

there are learning styles and approaches among students that are related to academic performance in Pharmacology; Aspects that should be considered for the improvement of the teaching process of this discipline in Dentistry are shown.

Palabras clave : learning; dental students; academic performance; pharmacology.

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