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The purpose of this study was to examine stages of learning cycles and learning styles nursing students in relation to academic department, types of schools students graduated from and grade level. Study group were 373 students in Istanbul University Florence Nightingale School of Nursing who have volunteered to participate in the study. It is targeted to reach complete of universe but is reached only 373 students who are voluntary. Data were collected by using Kolb Learning Styles Inventory developed by Kolb (1985) and adapted to Turkish by Aşkar and Akkoyunlu (1993). Data were analyzed by using percentiles, mean and, one-way ANOVA. The results indicated that stages of learning cycles showed significant differences by academic department, types of schools students graduated from and grade level, but there were no significant differences in learning styles. Findings suggest that nursing education curriculum and instruction should be designed to improve learning for students with different learning styles.

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