Comparative study on the learning styles of Argentine university students from different disciplines
Keywords:
estilos de aprendizaje, enseñanza universitaria, psicología cognitivaAbstract
Academic literacy requires the progressive mastery of textual and discursive forms of each discipline. The aim of this study is to analyze the learning styles of college students, comparing them by type of episteme (Human Sciences- Sciences). The research was descriptive-correlational study, with a transversal design. We applied the Index of Learning Styles of Felder & Silverman (1998) to 62 engineering students and 71 psychology students of first-year of a public university in Argentina. The main results show that students begin higher education with different learning styles. The discrepancies found were accentuated by the type of discipline; obtaining statistically significant differences in the styles of perception (sensory-intuitive), representation (visual-verbal) and comprehension (sequential-global).The engineering students were defined as sensory and visual. Instead, the guidelines in Psychology are intuitive, verbal, and sequential. Educational implications are discussed.
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