Learning styles of biological sciences students at the university

• Autores: Sánchez Horna, José Miguel, Alejos Reyes, Bettsy Giannina
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2019
• Institución: Universidad Cesar Vallejo
• Repositorio: UCV-Institucional
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.ucv.edu.pe:20.500.12692/33585
• Enlace del recurso: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12692/33585; https://revistaestilosdeaprendizaje.com/article/view/1210/1953; https://10.13189/ujer.2018.060302
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Learning styles; University students; Concrete learning; Abstract learning; Estilos de aprendizaje; Estudiantes universitarios; Aprendizaje concreto; Aprendizaje abstracto; https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#5.00.00

The purpose of the research was to determine the learning style of biological science students considering the possible effects of the variables, sex, political ideology and school of origin, on a sample of 59 students consisting of 40 entering and 19 next to graduate of the career of Biological Sciences of the Ricardo Palma University. The study had a quantitative, substantive, non-experimental design, and descriptive cross-section. The data was collected from the Kolb version E learning style instrument, the result indicates that the learning style present in the students who start the career is the usher with 55%, while the predominant style of the students who conclude is the assimilator with 57.89% Concrete learning styles are predominant in the students of the first cycle to be present in 65% of these, however the abstract learning styles are majority in the students of the tenth cycle reach 89.47%. The style of accommodating learning is higher in males (72.2%) than in females (40.9%) of the first cycle, however in the students of the tenth cycle, the assimilative style is higher in women (66.7%) than in men (50%).