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Determining Nursing Students’ Dominant Learning Styles and Evaluating the Affecting Factors Using Decision Tree Method

Didem Sarımehmet, *İlknur Buçan Kırkbir, Bahar Candaş Altınbaş, Çiğdem Torun Kılıç.

Abstract
Aim and Background: Identifying the learning styles is important to ensure full and effective learning in nursing students studying in a field that requires clinical practice and experience. For this aim, determined the dominant learning styles of nursing students and to evaluate the affecting factors using the decision tree method.
Methods: The study was conducted with 421 students studying nursing at a university in Turkey. “CART”, “CHAID” and “QUEST” decision tree algorithms were used to evaluate the factors affecting learning styles.
Results: Of the students, 48% had visual, 36% tactile, 9% kinesthetic, and 7% auditory learning styles. In the decision tree model, living place and university entrance scores were found to have statistically significant effects on learning styles (p<0.05).
Conclusion: This study determined that nursing students predominantly had the visual learning style and that the living place was the variable with the most pronounced effect on learning style.

Key words: Decision tree, learning style, nursing student


 
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DS, Kırkbir B, Altınbaş BC, Kılıc CT. Determining Nursing Students’ Dominant Learning Styles and Evaluating the Affecting Factors Using Decision Tree Method. J Complement Med Res. 2023; 14(2): 54-60. doi:10.5455/jcmr.2023.14.02.08


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DS, Kırkbir B, Altınbaş BC, Kılıc CT. Determining Nursing Students’ Dominant Learning Styles and Evaluating the Affecting Factors Using Decision Tree Method. https://www.jocmr.com/?mno=81498 [Access: May 26, 2023]. doi:10.5455/jcmr.2023.14.02.08


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DS, Kırkbir B, Altınbaş BC, Kılıc CT. Determining Nursing Students’ Dominant Learning Styles and Evaluating the Affecting Factors Using Decision Tree Method. J Complement Med Res. 2023; 14(2): 54-60. doi:10.5455/jcmr.2023.14.02.08



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DS, Kırkbir B, Altınbaş BC, Kılıc CT. Determining Nursing Students’ Dominant Learning Styles and Evaluating the Affecting Factors Using Decision Tree Method. J Complement Med Res. (2023), [cited May 26, 2023]; 14(2): 54-60. doi:10.5455/jcmr.2023.14.02.08



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, D. S., Kırkbir, . . B., Altınbaş, . B. C. & Kılıc, . C. T. (2023) Determining Nursing Students’ Dominant Learning Styles and Evaluating the Affecting Factors Using Decision Tree Method. J Complement Med Res, 14 (2), 54-60. doi:10.5455/jcmr.2023.14.02.08



Turabian Style

, Didem Sarımehmet, İlknur Bucan Kırkbir, Bahar Candaş Altınbaş, and Ciğdem Torun Kılıc. 2023. Determining Nursing Students’ Dominant Learning Styles and Evaluating the Affecting Factors Using Decision Tree Method. Journal of Complementary Medicine Research, 14 (2), 54-60. doi:10.5455/jcmr.2023.14.02.08



Chicago Style

, Didem Sarımehmet, İlknur Bucan Kırkbir, Bahar Candaş Altınbaş, and Ciğdem Torun Kılıc. "Determining Nursing Students’ Dominant Learning Styles and Evaluating the Affecting Factors Using Decision Tree Method." Journal of Complementary Medicine Research 14 (2023), 54-60. doi:10.5455/jcmr.2023.14.02.08



MLA (The Modern Language Association) Style

, Didem Sarımehmet, İlknur Bucan Kırkbir, Bahar Candaş Altınbaş, and Ciğdem Torun Kılıc. "Determining Nursing Students’ Dominant Learning Styles and Evaluating the Affecting Factors Using Decision Tree Method." Journal of Complementary Medicine Research 14.2 (2023), 54-60. Print. doi:10.5455/jcmr.2023.14.02.08



APA (American Psychological Association) Style

, D. S., Kırkbir, . . B., Altınbaş, . B. C. & Kılıc, . C. T. (2023) Determining Nursing Students’ Dominant Learning Styles and Evaluating the Affecting Factors Using Decision Tree Method. Journal of Complementary Medicine Research, 14 (2), 54-60. doi:10.5455/jcmr.2023.14.02.08