TY - JOUR AU - Figueiredo, Miguel Alves PY - 2018/11/15 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - LEARNING STYLES IN MATHEMATICS – A QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH ON 10TH GRADE PORTUGUESE STUDENTS JF - Revista de Estilos de Aprendizaje JA - REA VL - 11 IS - 22 SE - ARTÍCULOS DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA TEMÁTICA: Vol.13. Núm. 26 (Octubre, 2020). DO - 10.55777/rea.v11i22.1081 UR - https://revistaestilosdeaprendizaje.com/article/view/1081 SP - AB - <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> ER -