2007 Volume 2007 Issue DMSM-A603 Pages 07-
This paper proposes an approach to investigation on how students behave during the course of practice in medical informatics. Similarities among students' learning behaviors were measured by a tutorial evaluation form, which consists of 19 questionnaires and were analyzed by multidimensional scaling. The results show that items in an evaluation sheet can be divided into two classes on a two dimensional plane. One class includes arrangement of knowledge, important theme, fundamental items, common learning items, a goal for learning, and understanding of other people, which are located in the neighborhood of the origin with high similarities. The other class includes time distribution of discussion announcement, time distribution of the learning plan, with the learning item order, logical explains, which are located in the regions surrounding the former class. In each year from 2002 to 2004, while self-presentation was not observed, learning behavior with extroversion and other-directedness in the learning behavior were observed.
