Perceptions of Teaching Methods for Preclinical Oral Surgery: A Comparison with Learning Styles

Table 2: Comparison of teaching methods and learning styles.

Teaching/Learning Style variable	Mode	Mean Percentage of students (N = 68)	Mean Percentage of lecturers (N = 8)	Standard deviation		P value	Cohen’s d	Effect Size (r)
Teaching/Learning Style variable	Mode	Mean Percentage of students (N = 68)	Mean Percentage of lecturers (N = 8)	students	lecturers	P value	Cohen’s d	Effect Size (r)
Perception of information	Sensory	71.9	78.6	6.8	2.2	0.0082	0.739	0.347
Perception of information	Intuitive	28.1	21.4	6.8	2.2	0.0082	0.739	0.347
Perception of sensory information	Visual	73	80.1	11.4	3.9	0.0878	0.869	0.228
Perception of sensory information	Verbal	7	19.9	11.4	3.9	0.0878	0.869	0.228
Reasoning	Inductive	79.1	34.6	8.6	5.2	0.0001	3.84	0.887
Reasoning	Deductive	20.9	65.4	8.6	5.2	0.0001	3.84	0.887
Processing of information	Actively	67.7	60.3	7.9	3.1	0.0124	0.697	0.329
Processing of information	Reflectively	32.3	39.7	7.9	3.1	0.0124	0.697	0.329
Understanding of information	Sequentially	34.8	28.9	7.2	3.3	0.0275	0.61	0.292
Understanding of information	Globally	65.2	71.1	7.2	3.3	0.0275	0.61	0.292