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Which learning strategies do students of health studies use?

It is expected that people with good self-regulation skills are more ready for acquiring new knowledge and skills, which can enable them to be more successful in their professional lives. Since development in medicine and technology brings constant changes in health care system, adaptive learning strategies could be crucial for future health care workers for achieving good results and quickly adapting to changes in their work place. The goal of this study was to examine the use of learning strategies in students and whether there are differences in the use of these strategies with regard to gender and their educational level. The survey was conducted on 348 students of health studies in Zagreb. We used The Learning Strategies Scale (Lončarić, 2014). The results show that students mostly use adaptive strategies in learning like organisation, control flow and learning outcomes and application, which represent metacognitive control of learning, and deep cognitive processing, while focus on minimum requirements and memory were the least present. The female students use repetition, organisation and application more often. Third year students use elaboration, application and critical thinking significantly more often than frst and second year students. We can conclude that students of health studies mostly use adaptive strategies in learning. That can be very important in acquiring and retaining knowledge and skills, which they will use in their future professional lives.

self-regulation of learning ; students ; meta-cognitive learning strategies

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