Date of Completion
2022
Document Type
Research Project
Degree Name
Doctor of Medicine
Keywords
Learning Preference
Abstract
This study determined the association between a student's learning preference and their examination performance. Total enumeration sampling method was used, with the first-year medical students of De La Salle Medical and Health Sciences Institute (DLSMHSI) for academic year 2021-2022 as the participants. As a cross-sectional research employing the instrumental variable approach, the study will utilize a framework wherein learning preference are treated as exposure variables that influence the examination performance of the students as the outcome variable. It will also take into account the number of siblings as an instrumental variable, together with socioeconomic status, undergraduate degree, gender, awareness of learning preference and application of it as confounders. Scores of the students for the evaluation was also requested while observing anonymity and de-identification of the dataset. Statistical analyses using basic descriptive statistics, test for normality, and two-stage least squares for instrumental variable analysis was performed using the Stata 15 software. This study found that Number of siblings as the instrumental variable has a non-significant effect on the learning preference, evident with a z-score = 0.65 and a p-value = 0.52. Therefore, this shows that number of siblings is irrelevant as an instrumental variable in this study however shifting to conventional ordinary least squares regression was still enough in providing possible answers to the research question. Nonetheless, two vital components were included as well in the analysis. One is whether the participants are aware or not with their own learning preferences and the other one if, they actually applied or not those learning strategies aligned with their own learning preferences. Results have shown that these two components are still predictive of one’s examination performance.
APA Citation
Baylon, T. E., Maravilla, K. P., Apuntar, C. E., Aquino, M. O., Badong, P., Estrada, J. H., Fajarito, J. A., Flores, C., Gomez, E. P., Ledesma, C., Macalinao, B. C., & Tapia, S. G. (2022). Association between learning preference and examination performance in the biochemistry metabolism module among first year medical students during AY 2021-2022: an instrumental variable approach. [Research output, De La Salle Medical and Health Sciences Institute]. GreenPrints. https://greenprints.dlshsi.edu.ph/commed/883