Learning styles in university students: computing resources as a strategy for evaluation

Abstract

Changes in society make the educational process to be constantly innovating and moving forward, causing new concepts in the role of teacher and student. Current educational trends prioritize focus the teaching-learning process directly to the student, for that reason it is essential to identify ways in which information is acquired, processed and retrieved, concept called by some theorists of educational psychology as “Learning Styles”.

Learning styles help teachers to know more about the students they teach and to implement effective models of curriculum development; also, they contribute to the students to identify how they perceive, interact and respond to learning environments, furthermore to develop and implement strategies that enhance their learning style and thus enable a better academic performance.

The aim of this study is to describe the different learning styles that freshmen at UNAH have and make a characterization of them by gender and fields of knowledge. The instrument used was the “VARK Model” (Fleming & Mills) which assesses learning styles from sensory modality based on the categories: Visual, Auditory, Read/Write and Kinesthetic. To this purpose, the online version of the instrument was applied, which it was conducted through a support tool for classroom education designed and developed through the courses offered by the Direction of Educational Innovation: “educational blogs”.

UNAH INNOV@ No 4 2015 page 33-39