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Photo: USMMA The Author: Capt. James R. Zatwarnicki Jr., Assistant Professor of Nautical Science, USMMA. A great deal of research related to student learning styles has emerged in recent years.

A patient was in pain, frustrated because she felt like no one was listening to her. Emily Barksdale, a nursing student at UNC-Chapel Hill at the time, walked in and asked the patient to describe her ...