Another Nail in the Coffin for Learning Styles? Disparities among Undergraduate Anatomy Students' Study Strategies, Class Performance, and Reported VARK Learning Styles

426 undergraduate anatomy students across two autumn semesters

Undergraduate anatomy students, Indiana University

Correlational: VARK questionnaire plus a study-strategies survey, related to final course grade. No random assignment and no crossover test, so it cannot test meshing; it tests the weaker claims that students study in line with their VARK profile and that doing so pays.

Most students did not report study strategies matching their VARK assessment; VARK category scores did not correlate with course performance; and alignment between strategy and VARK had no correlation with outcomes. Some specific strategies (e.g. virtual microscope use) predicted grades irrespective of VARK.

High - entirely cross-sectional with self-selected study behaviour.