Learning styles and attitude towards mathematics in students of the Faculty of Medical Sciences of UNAN-Managua

Abstract

This present work is a study on learning styles and attitude towards mathematics in freshmen of the Faculty of Medical Sciences of UNAN-Managua, with this, it is intended to determine whether there is any relationship between these two variables. This research is descriptive-correlational, with a quantitative approach. A sample of 208 students is toiled. For the collection of the data two questionnaires were applied: The first corresponds to learning styles and contains 32 items, this instrument is a simplification of the Honey-Alonso questionnaire prepared by the authors Vega M. and Patino M. (2013), the second questionnaire corresponds to the attitude towards mathematics, composed of 23 items (12 positive and 11 negative), which is an adaptation of the instrument developed by Montesinos (2017), in both questionnaires each item will be measured in an ordinal way by a Likert scale. The results show that the predominant style in students is reflective and the attitude towards mathematics is favorable. In addition, it was found that in UNAN-Managua medical students the variable styles of learning and attitude towards mathematics are related, according to the chi-square nonparametric statistical method.