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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.




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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

Key words: Decision tree, learning style, nursing student





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