Assessing individual learning styles of undergraduate medical students utilizing Kolb's learning style inventory.

Background &Objective: David A. Kolb, an educational theorist, proposes that learning is a process, and that experience plays a key role in how individuals learn. In his Experiential Learning Theory, he has introduced a Learning Style Inventory, as a tool to assess and categorize individuals based on their preferred ways of learning. Our objective was to assess the individual learning styles of undergraduate medical students based on Kolb's learning style inventory (KLSI). Methods: In this cross sectional observational study a total of 142 medical students of 1 Results: The highest learning style amongst students was observed to be converging. However, when analyzed via chi square test, no significant difference was observed either between the students of the three years or between the learning styles of pre and post clinical students. There was transitory pattern of learning style preference among the 02 pre-clinical years of 1 Conclusion: It was concluded that learners exhibit different learning style preferences, that if known to the learner and facilitators would be helpful in the process.