State of the art for the study of learning styles at universities in Latin America and Spain.

Abstract

This article presents the state of the art or state of the matter regarding the study of learning styles in some universities in Latin America and Spain.For this, a bibliographic review of several scientific articles that provide information on models of learning styles, the measurement instruments that exist and the usefulness of studyng learning styles, which is relevant to understand the subject of study. In the review carried out, it was found that the most known and used models in several investigations are: the Felder and Silverman model, the Kolb model and the Honey and Mumford model. On the other hand, one of the most used instruments in the universities of Latin America and Spain is the Honey-Alonso Questionnaire on learning sytles (CHAEA) and is used as a diagnosis to know the students´ learning style, which allows them to adpat or design teaching learning strategies based on learning styles.