@article{Figueiredo_2018, title={LEARNING STYLES IN MATHEMATICS – A QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH ON 10TH GRADE PORTUGUESE STUDENTS}, volume={11}, url={https://revistaestilosdeaprendizaje.com/article/view/1081}, DOI={10.55777/rea.v11i22.1081}, abstractNote={<p>The article reports a research project aimed to describe the learning styles in mathematics of the Portuguese students at the 10<sup>th</sup> grade, and to analyze how those styles are related to the students’ performance. For this quantitative, descriptive and correlational research, I used a questionnaire based on the <em>ILS</em> (<em>Inventory of Learning Styles</em>) of Vermunt (1994), which I’ve adapted to the context of the learning of mathematics by the students at the Portuguese secondary schools. The sample, resulting from a multi-stage method, was composed by 579 students of 28 public schools. Within the conclusions of the research, I emphasize the detection of a learning style that is strongly correlated to the motivational learning orientations and to the self-regulated learning, being however still undefined it what concerns the cognitive processing strategies. This stile, if hold in a favorable context, may turn into a “meaning oriented” learning style. I also detected the four styles usually reported at Vermunt’s <em>ILS’ </em>applications: “meaning oriented”, “reproduction oriented”, “application oriented” and “not oriented”, as well as the positive contribution of a “meaning oriented” style to the scholar performance in mathematics, opposite to the effect of the “reproduction oriented” one.</p>}, number={22}, journal={Revista de Estilos de Aprendizaje}, author={Figueiredo, Miguel Alves}, year={2018}, month={nov.} }