The Study of the Relationship between student's Learning Styles and their preferred method of teaching and comparing it with the teaching methods of faculty members in clinical education in Isfahan

Clinical education is very important for paramedical sciences and there are several factors that affect the effectiveness of clinical education Which can be noted to the style of learning and teaching methods .The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between learning styles and preferential style of teaching at the clinical setting and compare it with the faculty's executive style.
This is a descriptive study. A total of 180 samples were selected by simple random sampling from a community of nursing and midwifery students of Isfahan Azad University. Data were collected by standard questionnaire of Kalb and the questionnaire of Musa pour teaching method. The validity and reliability of the questionnaires were repeatedly have been done in previous studies. Finally, data was analyzed by statistical test (Chi Square) and SPSS software version 20.
According to the findings, the frequency of student's learning styles was absorbent (33.3%), convergent (32.2%), divergent (23.9%) and adaptive (10.6%) respectively. The preferred style of most students (67.2%) was student-oriented, but most of the professor executive styles (67.8%) was proficient-oriented. There was a significant relationship between learning styles and preferential style of students (P = 0.03).
The student- oriented teaching method is one of the popular styles for medical students, but most of the professors use the teacher- oriented approach. Considering the importance of clinical learning, professors should be able to change their teaching methods and use student- oriented methods for better teaching